On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 22:36, Alexander Reinwarth wrote:
[...]
I locally defined a substitute for `with-output-to-string',
replacing
the last line of
,----
| (defmacro with-output-to-string (&rest forms)
| "Collect output to `standard-output' while evaluating FORMS and return
| it as a string."
| ;; by "William G. Dubuque" <wgd(a)zurich.ai.mit.edu> w/ mods from Stig
| `(with-current-buffer (get-buffer-create
| (generate-new-buffer-name " *string-output*"))
| (setq buffer-read-only nil)
| (buffer-disable-undo (current-buffer))
| (erase-buffer)
| (let ((standard-output (current-buffer)))
| ,@forms)
| (prog1
| (buffer-string)
| (erase-buffer))))
`----
with
(kill-buffer(current-buffer)))))
and now everything works as expected for me.
Is this something which should be changed in the XEmacs-distribution
or did I just misunderstand the purpose and/or implementation of
`with-output-to-string'?
[...]
Just took a look, and GNU Emacs has
(kill-buffer nil)))))
...there, which is basically the same thing as you did. Looks good to
me.
--
\/ille Skyttä
ville.skytta at
xemacs.org