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.
From: help-emacs-windows
<[email protected]> On Behalf Of Francis
Wright
Sent: Saturday, 18 May 2019 9:57 am
To: T400 <[email protected]>; [email protected]
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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Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2019 6:03:46 AM
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Subject: Re: [h-e-w] interactive "r" argument passing
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-
>> [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
>> On Behalf Of T400
>> Sent: Friday, 17 May 2019 6:01 pm
>> To: w32emacs <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
>> 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
>>
>>
