From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacsclient: controlling from an application? Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 10:58:13 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3F941425.5090201@yahoo.com> References: <3F8D9119.8050500@yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066669405 7260 80.91.224.253 (20 Oct 2003 17:03:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 17:03:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 20 19:03:21 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1ABdRA-0007rF-01 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 19:03:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1ABdPI-0000h9-Lf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 20 Oct 2003 13:01:24 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1066669092 26355760 170.207.51.80 (16 [82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:117449 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:13380 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:13380 DrMemory wrote: > It was suggested that I set the auto-save-visited-file-name var: > >>>You can set any variable on a per-buffer basis: >>> >>>(set (make-local-variable 'auto-save-visited-file-name) t) >>> >>>Try putting that in the file itself, either as the first line >>> >>># -*- eval: (set ...) -*- > > Which didn't work: > >>>It appears that the eval worked: >>>However, the auto-save is still behaving as if the global value were in force: > > And you suggested: > >>The variable is consulted when visiting a file to setup some other >>auto-save-related variables. What is probably occuring is that the >>variable is consulted before it is changed by the "eval: (set ...)" >>cookie. > > Nosing around, I find a variable called buffer-auto-save-file-name. > Setting that in an eval statement does work, if anyone is > interested.... > > -*- eval: (setq buffer-auto-save-file-name "Whatever") -*- To get the effect of setting auto-save-visited-file-name, change "Whatever" to buffer-file-name. -- Kevin Rodgers