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flymake not cleaning after itself (kill-buffer)

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Eric M. Ludlam" <eric <at> siege-engine.com>
Cc: S Boucher <stbya <at> yahoo.com>, Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>, Eric Ludlam <zappo <at> gnu.org>, 6967 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6967: flymake not cleaning after itself (kill-buffer)
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2010 12:20:45 -0400

> Semantic needs a variant of find-file that puts a buffer into the correct
> mode, which in turn runs the major-mode hook.  It also needs to run the
> mode-local hooks, but doesn't run miscellaneous other interactive
> tool hooks.

IIUC Semantic visits those files "temporarily" (i.e. it will kill the
buffer afterwards, although probably not if the buffer already existed).

I think this need is not specific to Semantic, and so we should provide
this functionality in files.el.  Maybe in a `with-found-file' macro.


        Stefan

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