From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to write a string to a file inside emacs ? Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:15:54 -0400 Message-ID: References: <1193156806.446070.169910@i38g2000prf.googlegroups.com> <1193157022.502345.219810@k35g2000prh.googlegroups.com> <1193157722.974559.53510@e34g2000pro.googlegroups.com> <1193195837.604586.170970@q3g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1193236852 20211 80.91.229.12 (24 Oct 2007 14:40:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:40:52 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 24 16:40:53 2007 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 4.50) id 1IkhPU-0000bF-Iq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:40:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IkhPM-00079Q-DP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 10:40:32 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news2.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local01.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.umontreal.ca!news.umontreal.ca.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 09:15:54 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:8tKzHFGbNLZuedycO5OtAtl1aDE= Original-Lines: 24 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.204.27.213 Original-X-Trace: sv3-cBGFXNfzxP+/0OggQ96RL4hStgbg34ZT61/quVZJjbxS5cTTqqX7zJUamZwLge3oQvJwEFoYoe5LTlF!BslV078LeWYPGnjBQXIdFuILFnhh+9/iGMqV0Ti07BY8siLBSTCy6OmFAOKNFPxThDQQDmt9vHrd!HfiimGVhk80DfDzBPg== Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.35 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:153275 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:48763 Archived-At: > Can you make any of these work? I tried the non-kludge feature, > which works and its not the path name. There is some debugger > error which i cant understand. > (write-region "astring" 2 "file2" APPEND) Why 2? > (write-region "astring" "file2" APPEND) You forgot the END argument. > (write-region "astring" "file2" ) Same here. > (write-region "astring" 2 "file2" ) Again, why 2? I use (write-region "foo" nil "/tmp/toto") and it works dandy. Stefan