Re: [AUCTeX-devel] Re: [AUCTeX-diffs] Changes to reftex/lisp/reftex-base.el, v

[Ralf Angeli]

* David Kastrup (2007-07-22) writes:

> Ralf Angeli <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> -              (find-file file)
>> +          (set-buffer (get-buffer-create file))
>>                (erase-buffer)
>
> NO!!!!!!  You can't just take a buffer that happens to have the same
> _buffer_ name as the file and kill it.  What were you thinking?  Ok,
> it is Sunday morning.
>
> If you start and end with a clean slate, probably the easiest thing to
> do is to wrap everything in
>
> (with-temp-file file
>    ...
> )

`generate-new-buffer' instead of `get-buffer-create' should work as
well, I guess.

-- 
Ralf