From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: desktop.el: autosave? Date: Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:35:12 +0200 Organization: JURTA Message-ID: <8763zjfe0v.fsf@jurta.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196470092 8823 80.91.229.12 (1 Dec 2007 00:48:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2007 00:48:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Reuben Thomas To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 01 01:48:18 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 1IyGWj-0005BD-G9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 01 Dec 2007 01:48:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IyGWL-0002zR-1a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:47:49 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IyGW2-0002ts-0D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:47:30 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1IyGVx-0002s9-Dg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:47:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IyGVx-0002s5-58 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:47:25 -0500 Original-Received: from relay01.kiev.sovam.com ([62.64.120.200]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IyGVJ-0006g1-Ii; Fri, 30 Nov 2007 19:46:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [83.170.232.243] (helo=smtp.svitonline.com) by relay01.kiev.sovam.com with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1IyGUg-0005oB-SW; Sat, 01 Dec 2007 02:46:07 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Richard Stallman's message of "Fri, 30 Nov 2007 18:35:57 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Scanner-Signature: a96565856d7d777f03ae631b61e05b17 X-DrWeb-checked: yes X-SpamTest-Envelope-From: juri@jurta.org X-SpamTest-Group-ID: 00000000 X-SpamTest-Header: Not Detected X-SpamTest-Info: Profiles 1836 [Nov 30 2007] X-SpamTest-Info: helo_type=3 X-SpamTest-Info: {HEADERS: header Content-Type found without required header Content-Transfer-Encoding} X-SpamTest-Method: none X-SpamTest-Rate: 19 X-SpamTest-Status: Not detected X-SpamTest-Status-Extended: not_detected X-SpamTest-Version: SMTP-Filter Version 3.0.0 [0255], KAS30/Release X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 4.8-5.1 (or MacOS X 10.2-10.3) 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:84398 Archived-At: > auto-save-hook could do this job. I use in .emacs: (defun my-desktop-save () (interactive) ;; `desktop-owner' is a new function in Emacs 22.1.50 to check ;; for conflicts between two running Emacs instances. ;; We don't want automatic saving in the second Emacs process. (if (and (fboundp 'desktop-owner) (eq (desktop-owner) (emacs-pid))) (desktop-save "~"))) ;; Save the desktop every hour (run-at-time 3600 3600 'my-desktop-save) But maybe instead of requiring putting this code in .emacs for every user who want to save the desktop periodically, we should add a new user option to desktop.el that specifies time interval of auto-saving? I think the default value of `auto-save-timeout' is too frequent for a heavy function `desktop-save'. And also standard auto-saving mechanism works on files, but the desktop doesn't keep the desktop file permanently visited. > Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 14:08:07 +0000 (GMT) > From: Reuben Thomas > To: bug-emacs@gnu.org > Message-ID: > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed > Cc: > Subject: desktop.el: autosave? > > desktop.el is great; I've used it since before it became part of Emacs. > > However, I sometimes lose my Emacs session for various reasons (hardly ever > because of Emacs itself, usually for some stupid reason like updating a > kernel, and then suspending instead of rebooting). When I come back, I get > my old Emacs session. Of course, the files I'm editing all have auto-saved > copies, if I need them. It would be nice if desktop mode could similarly > write a desktop save file from time to time during the editing session so > that if like me, you leave Emacs running all the time, you don't risk going > back to a collection of files days or weeks out of date should you lose your > Emacs session. > > Since desktop already does things when Emacs is idle, it seems to me (I admit I > know nothing about this area of programming Emacs, I've only dabbled in elisp > to the extent I need to to customize Emacs) that it should be fairly simple to > add the ability to save out a new desktop save file from time to time when > Emacs is idle. I imagine the period would be customizable, but every half hour > or so would seem to be the right order of default. > > -- > http://rrt.sc3d.org/ | The Next Station Is Oval (Anon) -- Juri Linkov http://www.jurta.org/emacs/