From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: auto save for shell buffers
Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 10:19:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mvminbrsjev.fsf@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a7x3sm80.fsf@gmail.com> (Robert Pluim's message of "Wed, 24 Jan 2018 09:19:11 +0100")
On Jan 24 2018, Robert Pluim <rpluim@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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*"
Also, auto-save handles non-file buffers as well.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-01-24 9:19 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
2018-01-24 9:19 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2018-01-24 19:13 ` Perry Smith
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