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bug#41060: [PATCH] Use write-region when saving recentf file
From: |
Philip K. |
Subject: |
bug#41060: [PATCH] Use write-region when saving recentf file |
Date: |
Sun, 03 May 2020 18:43:01 +0200 |
I've been playing around with enabling "version-control" for backups,
and what I have been noticing is that the ~/.emacs.d/recentf file has
had a lot of backups, far more that regular files that I use. My
understanding is that this happens because recentf currently uses
write-file (that in turn uses the backup'ing save-buffer) instead of
directly writing the temporary buffer to the disk.
This patch does just that, replacing write-file with write-region,
because I argue that an automatically generated file doesn't need
backups.
--
Philip K.
>From 25700db3f6e8e282f86f1cd3ccc77250834fb7a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Philip K <philip@warpmail.net>
Date: Sun, 3 May 2020 01:13:31 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Use write-region when saving recentf file
---
lisp/recentf.el | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/lisp/recentf.el b/lisp/recentf.el
index 27918a9739..877edd4be1 100644
--- a/lisp/recentf.el
+++ b/lisp/recentf.el
@@ -1289,7 +1289,8 @@ recentf-save-list
(insert "\n\n;; Local Variables:\n"
(format ";; coding: %s\n" recentf-save-file-coding-system)
";; End:\n")
- (write-file (expand-file-name recentf-save-file))
+ (write-region (point-min) (point-max)
+ (expand-file-name recentf-save-file))
(when recentf-save-file-modes
(set-file-modes recentf-save-file recentf-save-file-modes))
nil)
--
2.20.1
- bug#41060: [PATCH] Use write-region when saving recentf file,
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