From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Van L Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Problem with simple script to clean out an ERC buffer Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2018 00:28:26 +1000 Message-ID: <547B22AB-988F-45C6-92F9-DB761A47F5E7@scratch.space> References: <86lgbs2tav.fsf@zoho.com> <86h8mg2j2z.fsf@zoho.com> <864lie29p0.fsf@zoho.com> <86bmcmznjt.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.3 \(3124\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1528381644 8053 195.159.176.226 (7 Jun 2018 14:27:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 14:27:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Emanuel Berg Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 07 16:27:19 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fQvsl-0001xG-H1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2018 16:27:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58252 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQvuq-0002WX-Ub for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2018 10:29:28 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45531) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQvu3-0002VZ-Ba for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2018 10:28:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQvtz-0007OZ-Dk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2018 10:28:39 -0400 Original-Received: from relay7-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.200]:34109) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQvtz-0007Nl-6f for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2018 10:28:35 -0400 X-Originating-IP: 220.245.108.24 Original-Received: from epi.local (220-245-108-24.tpgi.com.au [220.245.108.24]) (Authenticated sender: van@scratch.space) by relay7-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D5D1120005; Thu, 7 Jun 2018 14:28:38 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <86bmcmznjt.fsf@zoho.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3124) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 217.70.183.200 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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 Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117017 Archived-At: > Emanuel Berg writes: > >>> Sometimes I don't get back to check >>> a chatroom for a day or more, so I don't >>> want anything truncating it before >>> I get there. >> >> There is a variable for continuously writing >> chat buffer to file so you lose nothing. > > Hold - Mr. Boyd may run out of disk space > doing that! True in theory. 30kb file can fit on video file store capacity with plenty to spare in reality. > Seriously, what is it in the IRC logs that is > so important you have to check it like some > 20-ish moronic dude who wants to attend every > single party fearing otherwise he will > "miss" something? Is that what IRC is good for?