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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: can shell mode keep a log?
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2022 21:23:49 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83illzgi16.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bkrrp0r2.fsf@posteo.net> (message from Philip Kaludercic on Wed, 07 Sep 2022 17:12:17 +0000)

> From: Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2022 17:12:17 +0000
> 
> Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > is it possible and reasonable to log everything in every shell buffer
> > to a file?  i can imagine lots of output, but i could have the logs go
> > into an auto-expired dir.  but would performance ok?
> 
> Does it have to be automatic?  If not, you can always just write out the
> contents of a buffer using M-x write-file.

A slightly more "automatic" alternative is to save the buffer using
the facilities in midnight.el or something similar.



  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-07 18:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-07  5:02 can shell mode keep a log? Samuel Wales
2022-09-07  5:26 ` Jude DaShiell
2022-09-07  5:43 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-07 17:12 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-09-07 18:23   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-09-08  0:40     ` Samuel Wales
2022-09-08  0:59       ` Emanuel Berg
2022-09-10  4:47       ` James Thomas
2022-09-11  2:08         ` Samuel Wales

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