From: Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com>
To: Perry Smith <pedzan@icloud.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: auto save for shell buffers
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 09:19:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87a7x3sm80.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9AEC0F8C-556D-48F3-9097-6AA16D0C55D7@icloud.com> (Perry Smith's message of "Tue, 23 Jan 2018 13:01:36 -0600")
Perry Smith <pedzan@icloud.com> writes:
> How can I set things up so the buffer being used to run an inferior shell will be autosaved periodically to a file?
>
> The file to save in could be named "shell-2018-01-22".
>
> I thought this would be trivial but it seems the autosave concept is
> deeply tied into the visiting file concepts which of course, doesn't
> apply for the buffer being used by the inferior shell.
>
I'm not sure why you think that. You can save the shell buffer to a
file, and it will be autosaved. Note that the shell buffer doesn't
have to be called "*shell*"
Robert
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-24 8:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-23 19:01 auto save for shell buffers Perry Smith
2018-01-24 8:19 ` Robert Pluim [this message]
2018-01-24 9:19 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-01-24 19:13 ` Perry Smith
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