Thanks, again. The problem wasn't with the function but with a faulty
defalias form, with which I called the function. Now I have (correctly):
(defalias 'sch 'save-sscratch)
I was losing the contents of *scratch* because of unexpected shutdowns
and because that buffer is not normally associated with any file. Maybe
it would be a good idea to save the buffer to starscratch.txt on start
up so that later it might be recovered if need be (with
recover-this-file). Emacs dev would know how to make it do what I mean.
Ed
On 5/18/2019 06:54, Francis Wright wrote:
Just to follow up on what I wrote below, the following version of your
function works fine for me (on Windows 10) and writes the file to my
default Documents folder:
(defun save-sscratch (start end)
"Append region in *scratch* to file scratch.txt."
(interactive "r")
(with-current-buffer "*scratch*"
(write-region start end "c:/Users/fjw/Documents/scratch.txt" t)))
I think your problem is the way you have specified the folder that you
want to write to.
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*Subject:* Re: [h-e-w] interactive "r" argument passing
If this still doesn't work then I suggest you visit the file you want
to write to in Emacs and copy the full filename used by Emacs into
your function. I'll look at this more carefully later.
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Thanks, Francis. I tried escaped backslashes and slashes. After this
didn't work either:
(defun save-sscratch (start end) ;; M-x sch
"Append region in *scratch* to file scratch.txt."
(interactive "r")
(with-current-buffer "*scratch*"
(write-region start end "c:/mydocu~1/scratch.txt" t)))
I noticed that the in the alias def for sch the 'save-sscratch' function
name was spelled wrong.
;-(
Ed
On 5/17/2019 12:18, Francis Wright wrote:
> You need to double the backslashes or use forward slashes; either
should work. (And there should be no need to shorten filenames.)
>
> Francis
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: help-emacs-windows <help-emacs-windows-
>> bounces+f.j.wright=live.co...@gnu.org
<mailto:bounces+f.j.wright=live.co...@gnu.org>> On Behalf Of T400
>> Sent: Friday, 17 May 2019 6:01 pm
>> To: w32emacs <help-emacs-windows@gnu.org
<mailto:help-emacs-windows@gnu.org>>
>> Subject: [h-e-w] interactive "r" argument passing
>>
>> Dear w32 emacs gurus:
>>
>> Why does this function not work? I think that similar functions I
wrote long
>> ago did work.:
>>
>>
>> (defun save-sscratch (start end) ;; M-x sch alias
>> "Append region in *scratch* to file scratch.txt"
>> (interactive "r")
>> (with-current-buffer "*scratch*"
>> (append-to-file start end "c:\mydocu~1\scratch.txt")))
>>
>> Do I need escaped backslashes? forward slashes?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Ed
>>
>>
