From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is with-temp-buffer really temporary? Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 23:53:33 +0300 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="8642"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0.6 (2021-03-06) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 26 22:57:47 2021 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 1lb8Ic-00026m-Tj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 26 Apr 2021 22:57:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50258 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lb8Ic-00088l-1f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 26 Apr 2021 16:57:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42078) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lb8IF-00088d-4Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Apr 2021 16:57:23 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:56573) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lb8IB-0006OW-EZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Apr 2021 16:57:22 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:41.202.241.10]) (AUTH: PLAIN securesender, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 000000000002BECD.0000000060872907.00004512; Mon, 26 Apr 2021 13:56:36 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Stefan Monnier , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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:129147 Archived-At: * Stefan Monnier [2021-04-26 22:59]: > > I wish to use Emacs to accept file online and file should enter memory > > and memory should be deleted thereafter. > > Thus, if I use with-temp-buffer function, how sure is it that anything > > that as in temporary buffer is not any more in the memory of computer? > > Emacs Lisp does not "scrape" the memory that it stops using. > IIRC the only kind of scraping offered is what you get with > `clear-string` and AFAIK we have nothing equivalent for buffer text. Also good to know. And if Emacs exits, finishes the process, is memory then scraped? -- Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns Sign an open letter in support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/ https://rms-support-letter.github.io/