From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: tomas@tuxteam.de Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: desktop.el: autosave? Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 15:38:07 +0000 Message-ID: <20071206153806.GA20731@www.trapp.net> References: <8763zjfe0v.fsf@jurta.org> <87mysridxt.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196955833 10022 80.91.229.12 (6 Dec 2007 15:43:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 15:43:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Reuben Thomas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 06 16:44:03 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J0ItM-0004j2-Ea for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:44:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J0It5-0000c5-HO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:43:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J0IsQ-0008FK-MI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:43:02 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J0IsM-00088k-8k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:43:02 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J0IsL-00087s-Kx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:42:57 -0500 Original-Received: from alextrapp1.equinoxe.de ([217.22.192.104] helo=www.elogos.de) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J0IsH-00053f-GO; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:42:53 -0500 Original-Received: from www.elogos.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by www.elogos.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD17F4B619; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 15:38:10 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: by www.elogos.de (Postfix, from userid 4000) id 9DD4A4B620; Thu, 6 Dec 2007 15:38:08 +0000 (UTC) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:84796 Archived-At: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 02:58:42PM +0000, Reuben Thomas wrote: > On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Juri Linkov wrote: >=20 > >I'm not sure an idle timer is good for this feature. I want to auto-s= ave > >the desktop at quite long time intervals [...] > Why do you want to save at such long intervals? Is there a performance=20 > problem with just using the idle timer? [...] Disk spin-up on laaptops comes to mind. The longer the intervals the longer bettery (and disk!) life. Regards - -- tom=C3=A1s -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHWBdeBcgs9XrR2kYRAu4FAJ96TJ6xjgYP7qxE39oUtwJRgWUavgCfWyFl v/4WF/cpxps1ESvZoIkY1LA=3D =3D2oyb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----