From: "Mathias Dahl" <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>
To: "Ted Zlatanov" <tzz@lifelogs.com>
Cc: pbreton@cs.umb.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: filecache.el questions
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 13:36:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7dbe73ed0810020436t78a7a3e4jf5526a79b24b37d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <864p3w457n.fsf@lifelogs.com>
> in using filecache.el I found two issues I have for now addressed on my
> own:
>
> 1) the file-cache-alist is never saved. This is a problem with large
> file sets (incidentally, it would be nice if Emacs had a native way of
> storing large data sets in an external database, as I mentioned). I
> wrote a serialization function that essentially dumps with prin1 and
> princ and reads back with eval. I also added a variable with the list
> of locations that should be scanned at startup.
I had the same problem when I learnt about this and I created a page
over at EmacsWiki about it:
http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/FileNameCache
Nowadays I use `anything' and the `anything-c-source-file-cache'
source instead of my old iswitchb hack. I even have a special command
when I want to use `anything' just to get files from the cache (the
cache is so large that I don't want it to be used for normal
invocations of `anything'):
(defun anything-file-cache ()
(interactive)
(let ((anything-sources
(list anything-c-source-file-cache)))
(anything)))
Enjoy!
/Mathias
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-02 11:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-01 17:04 filecache.el questions Ted Zlatanov
2008-10-01 20:33 ` Ted Zlatanov
2008-10-02 11:36 ` Mathias Dahl [this message]
2008-10-02 17:29 ` Ted Zlatanov
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