Re: How to programmatically save a buffer?

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> writes:

> Hi there,
>
> as part of a function of mine, I want to save a buffer.  However, I do
> not want any messages logged (as save-buffer does).  I found this in the
> manual:
>
> You can write the contents of a buffer, or part of a buffer, directly to
> a file on disk using the ‘append-to-file’ and ‘write-region’ functions.
> Don’t use these functions to write to files that are being visited; that
> could cause confusion in the mechanisms for visiting.
>
> Why shouldn't I use `write-region'?

Because find-file doesn't necessarily put the file contents in the
buffer, but some "formatted" or "extracted" version of if.

You may try basic-save-buffer
which writes a message only if no save was needed.

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