Re: How to write a string to a file inside emacs ?

[Stefan Monnier]

> 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