Auto-Logging Buffer

Auto-Logging Buffer

[cyber0ne]

Using GNU Emacs 21.3.2

This is probably a simple question, but is there an easy way to have my
emacs buffer auto-log to a file?  I'm using emacs as a moo/mud client
in a screen session, and I'd like to keep a running log.  I know how to
save the file manually, but i don't always have that option if, for
whatever reason, the machine running the screen session reboots (power
failure, etc.).

Thanks.


-cyber0ne

Re: Auto-Logging Buffer

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 12.08.2006 um 03:19 schrieb cyber0ne:

> Using GNU Emacs 21.3.2
>
> This is probably a simple question, but is there an easy way to  
> have my
> emacs buffer auto-log to a file?  I'm using emacs as a moo/mud client
> in a screen session, and I'd like to keep a running log.  I know  
> how to
> save the file manually, but i don't always have that option if, for
> whatever reason, the machine running the screen session reboots (power
> failure, etc.).

Save that buffer at once to a file (maybe with a hook  
automatically?). And maybe set different value for auto-save-timeout.

When GNU Emacs then has to abort you'll have the log file and a  
possibly newer copy named à la #log file#. And the version from  
before log file was saved: log file~.

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Re: Auto-Logging Buffer

[cyber0ne]

> Save that buffer at once to a file (maybe with a hook
> automatically?). And maybe set different value for auto-save-timeout.
>
> When GNU Emacs then has to abort you'll have the log file and a
> possibly newer copy named à la #log file#. And the version from
> before log file was saved: log file~.

Hmm.  It looks like the problem is with my MOO client (RMOO) and not
with emacs, then.  Once a save has been done, the client just... stops.

You wouldn't happen to know of a decent MOO client for emacs, would
you?  alt.mud.moo seems long since dead.