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Re: Is with-temp-buffer really temporary?
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Is with-temp-buffer really temporary? |
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Mon, 26 Apr 2021 15:58:43 -0400 |
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> I wish to use Emacs to accept file online and file should enter memory
> and memory should be deleted thereafter.
> Thus, if I use with-temp-buffer function, how sure is it that anything
> that as in temporary buffer is not any more in the memory of computer?
Emacs Lisp does not "scrape" the memory that it stops using.
IIRC the only kind of scraping offered is what you get with
`clear-string` and AFAIK we have nothing equivalent for buffer text.
Stefan