GNU bug report logs - #12507
24.2.50; `bookmark-write-file': use `write-file', not `write-region', to get backups

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 18:44:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: notabug

Found in version 24.2.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #88 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Thierry Volpiatto <thierry.volpiatto <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12507: [debbugs-tracker] Processed: severity 12507 wishlist
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2012 18:20:49 +0200

"Drew Adams" <drew.adams <at> oracle.com> writes:

> How so?  What am I missing?  What part of `write-file' writes the same data
> twice?  All I see in the `write-file' definition, in terms of writing, is a call
> to `save-buffer'.
What I want to say is, why writing to buffer "*Bookmarks*", renaming
this buffer to the filename buffer, and then saving it?
Just use find-file-noselect, write data and save.

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