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> From: David Reitter <dreitter@inf.ed.ac.uk>
> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 14:46:08 +0000
> 
>    	    ;; Don't use write-file; we don't want this buffer to visit it.
> ! 	    (let ((coding-system-for-write 'utf-8))
> ! 	      (write-region (point-min) (point-max) file))

FWIW, I don't think UTF-8 is a good idea here, since it cannot encode
all the characters Emacs supports.  Maybe emacs-mule?

> !       ;; (message "Saving places to %s..." file)

I think there should be a user option to disable this, instead of
disabling it unconditionally.  I, for example, quite like this
message.