Hello, Le 25/01/2013, Rudra Banerjee <rudra.baner...@aol.co.uk> a écrit : > But is it so tough? database and all that? For managing several bibliography files, that should be better yes.
> All I want to do is to have the ability of editing an existing file. > Since directly editing the file is not recommended, this is the reason > why I want to open it as buffer! For just handling one file, that's not necessary of course. The idea when you want to change a file on disk is (not too big) : - generate a buffer of the full content of the file in memory, using GString for instance (http://developer.gnome.org/glib/unstable/glib-Strings.html) since they are automatically expending in size but can be used with equivalent printf() convenient functions ; - copy atomicaly the buffer in the file with g-file-set-contents() http://developer.gnome.org/glib/unstable/glib-File-Utilities.html#g-file-set-contents - delete the buffer. Damien. _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
