Mercurial > emacs
changeset 102890:fb16f3bdad15
(append-to-file): Doc fix.
| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Wed, 08 Apr 2009 14:05:38 +0000 |
| parents | dccc80becf9d |
| children | 78cf196522ce |
| files | lisp/files.el |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lisp/files.el Wed Apr 08 13:51:48 2009 +0000 +++ b/lisp/files.el Wed Apr 08 14:05:38 2009 +0000 @@ -4475,8 +4475,14 @@ (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))