From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: auto-saving files Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 10:13:25 +0200 Message-ID: <87sk5hk996.fsf@thinkpad.tsdh.de> References: <87k4qwktti.fsf@engster.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1274688854 14893 80.91.229.12 (24 May 2010 08:14:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 08:14:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 24 10:14:13 2010 connect(): No such file or directory Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGSnZ-0006AT-DZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 May 2010 10:14:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53668 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OGSnY-0007eE-Nn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 24 May 2010 04:14:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51355 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OGSn9-0007e8-9z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 May 2010 04:13:44 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGSn7-0002Y4-WD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 May 2010 04:13:43 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:42062) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGSn7-0002Xr-QN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 May 2010 04:13:41 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OGSn1-00061L-K5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 24 May 2010 10:13:35 +0200 Original-Received: from p54af18c8.dip0.t-ipconnect.de ([84.175.24.200]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 24 May 2010 10:13:35 +0200 Original-Received: from tassilo by p54af18c8.dip0.t-ipconnect.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 24 May 2010 10:13:35 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ connect(): No such file or directory Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: p54af18c8.dip0.t-ipconnect.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:33jYcqSidPgBs+cder033ZANf40= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:73748 Archived-At: Andrea Crotti 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