On Fri, May 09 2014, Mark Walters wrote:
> The first two patches are fine, although I think I like constructing a
> query then quoting rather than quoting bits of a query and bolting them
> together (even the both work).

Agreed. I've no idea what I was thinking.

> My concern is that the current approach gives the user no warning if
> they are about to overwrite an existing file, and that this is true
> regardless of any emacs settings. 
>
> Could we do these saves by loading into a temporary buffer and then
> using the normal emacs save buffer functions? That way we get the
> benefit of emacs's normal query-overwrite, and respect any user
> customizations of that.

Yes, that is a better approach.