[emacs-wiki-discuss] Re: muse-publish handling abnormal exit during call to publish

[Sacha Chua]

drkm <address@hidden> writes:

> What's the difference between it and simply visiting the file?
> Because we create a temporary buffer, and directly we fill it
> with the content of a file and associate the buffer with this

We don't want to accidentally overwrite the unmarked-up copy, and a
number of functions are run when interactively visiting a page. Using
a temp buffer distinguishes a normal visit from a publishing visit,
and you can kill temp buffers knowing you didn't make any significant
changes to them.

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