From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [External] : Re: how to force auto-save of buffers not visiting files, right now? Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2022 03:38:45 +0100 Message-ID: <87sfrey8cq.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <019b7e509c29caa462ff1c30079ce9bfb8cdc668.camel@adminart.net> <8335jklmyf.fsf@gnu.org> <3119c8db-f395-3ae3-b027-b03553dbcc69@adminart.net> <87pmmlfa0l.fsf@zoho.eu> <6d5afce159dbd833a5e8c1423d956b58faecce85.camel@adminart.net> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31110"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:2skZkgEFe3jB2KaiF8cmdvZ6+Wc= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 19 17:41:37 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nVc92-0007xQ-SF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2022 17:41:36 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38492 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nVc91-0001nL-Jl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2022 12:41:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:49504) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nVP0h-0004hf-0I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2022 22:40:07 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:49434) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nVP0f-0008VQ-A3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2022 22:40:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nVP0c-0005GI-D7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2022 03:40:02 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 19 Mar 2022 12:38:25 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:136681 Archived-At: hw wrote: >>>> Emacs thinks that ... >>> >>> Thanks! I didn't know that emacs can even think, though :) >> >> Not to worry. Emacs knows that _we_ can think, and even >> counts on it! > > In this case, it's kinda true because the adjusted version > doesn't work because the argument is required, so: > > (defun my-perltidy-replace (arg) > "This function replaces the contents of the current buffer with > the output of perltidy, and makes a backup of the current buffer. > > Before and after modifications to contents of buffers are being > made, all buffers that need to be auto-saved are being > auto-saved. > > The major-mode of the buffer containing the backup is set to > 'cperl-mode'. > > The argument ARG is unused." In that case, call the argument _ and the docstring comment can be removed. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal