Re: auto-saving files

[Tassilo Horn <tassilo@member.fsf.org>]

Andrea Crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> writes:

Hi Andrea,

> But why by the way gnus must keep a buffer open for it's own job?
>
> I mean I don't need that buffer open, can't it work on the file
> without visiting it on a buffer?

Not really.  Almost all text modification operations work on buffers,
not files.  There are some exceptions: you can append to a file without
visiting it in a buffer.  But as soon as you have to do something
non-trivial, you will have to visit it in a buffer.

Bye,
Tassilo