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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: How to automatically write *Messages" buffer to a file?
Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 17:52:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <01c4d23d$Blat.v2.2.2$c2b81b20@zahav.net.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sm6zl4sx.fsf@thalassa.informatimago.com> (message from Pascal Bourguignon on 24 Nov 2004 15:06:38 +0100)

> From: Pascal Bourguignon <spam@mouse-potato.com>
> Date: 24 Nov 2004 15:06:38 +0100
> 
> Brad Collins <brad@chenla.org> writes:
> 
> > Is there is a simple way of getting Emacs to automatically append
> > messages in the message buffer to a file so messages work as a log file?
> > 
> > I've been looking around and it seems this should be dead easy but I
> > can't figure it out?
> 
> The best I can figure is that the simple way to do it would be to
> modify the C source of emacs.  message is a buit-in function.

How about an after-change function that'd do this only for the
*Messages* buffer?

> I know of no way from emacs lisp to append a line to a file.

??? What's wrong with append-to-file?

  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-24 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1150.1101268518.27204.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-11-24 14:06 ` How to automatically write *Messages" buffer to a file? Pascal Bourguignon
2004-11-24 15:52   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2004-11-24 19:01     ` Joe Corneli
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1295.1101323448.27204.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-11-24 20:16       ` Stefan Monnier
2004-11-24 20:28         ` Joe Corneli
     [not found]         ` <mailman.1305.1101328729.27204.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-11-24 20:55           ` Stefan Monnier
2004-11-24 21:52             ` Joe Corneli
2004-11-24 22:19             ` Drew Adams
2004-11-25  4:56             ` Joe Corneli
     [not found]             ` <mailman.1370.1101359173.27204.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2004-11-25 20:20               ` Stefan Monnier
2004-11-24 22:00           ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2004-11-25  4:52             ` Joe Corneli
2004-12-01 19:08 ` Kevin Rodgers
2004-11-24  3:43 Brad Collins

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