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author | Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> | 2009-04-08 14:06:45 +0000 |
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committer | Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> | 2009-04-08 14:06:45 +0000 |
commit | d8c0d4196f8d20e8726f9f124c75846bb8e9a9bb (patch) | |
tree | 921baacff9b187ea691f49a86b02d0778dd0fa38 /lisp | |
parent | 9993f59a8583c0934913c76618b39429dbbca285 (diff) |
(append-to-file): Doc fix.
Diffstat (limited to 'lisp')
-rw-r--r-- | lisp/ChangeLog | 2 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | lisp/files.el | 10 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog index 33b315367b..8eb266495d 100644 --- a/lisp/ChangeLog +++ b/lisp/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ 2009-04-08 Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> + * files.el (append-to-file): Doc fix. + * term/pc-win.el (msdos-last-help-message): New defvar. (msdos-show-help): Use it to avoid saving the last message if it was also a help message (Bug#2895). diff --git a/lisp/files.el b/lisp/files.el index 7c792c96c5..499948c417 100644 --- a/lisp/files.el +++ b/lisp/files.el @@ -4475,8 +4475,14 @@ Don't call it from programs! Use `insert-file-contents' instead. (defun append-to-file (start end filename) "Append the contents of the region to the end of file FILENAME. When called from a function, expects three arguments, -START, END and FILENAME. START and END are buffer positions -saying what text to write." +START, END and FILENAME. START and END are normally buffer positions +specifying the part of the buffer to write. +If START is nil, that means to use the entire buffer contents. +If START is a string, then output that string to the file +instead of any buffer contents; END is ignored. + +This does character code conversion and applies annotations +like `write-region' does." (interactive "r\nFAppend to file: ") (write-region start end filename t)) |