Re: Bypass encoding selection in automated function

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Christopher Howard <christopher@librehacker.com> writes:

>
> I don't know of a way to dump the string directly to a file, so I'm
> dumping the string to a buffer, and then using write-region to dump
> that to a file. This basically works, except that before Emacs writes
> the file, first it asks the user to manually select an encoding. But
> this function can't depend on any manual intervention.
>
> Could somebody advise me about the simplest solution here. I just want
> to pass the exact contents I received from the API, into the file,
> without any changes.

To read the Emacs Lisp reference manual’s chapter on files, evaluate the
following expression in Emacs:

   (info "(elisp) Files")

Its first sentence reads:

   "This chapter describes the Emacs Lisp functions and variables to find,
create, view, save, and otherwise work with files and directories."

That chapter contains the section titled "Writing to Files":

   (info "(elisp) Writing to Files")

What you are looking for is likely the ‘with-temp-file’ macro, which is
described in that section.

Also, from the Help menu in Emacs:

   Help -> Search Documentation -> Lookup Subject in Elisp Manual...

can be used to guess about what might be appropriate (but sometimes
guessing does not work -- no matches or too many matches).

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