From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim Landscheidt Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: listing auto-save files that are newer Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2022 15:52:00 +0000 Organization: https://www.tim-landscheidt.de/ Message-ID: <87tu1khk9r.fsf@vagabond.tim-landscheidt.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="17051"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:WbYwSs6XMt+okWDdEeosx+kGl24= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 24 16:52:41 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1p96pF-0004F0-KZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2022 16:52:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p96op-0002Ce-Uz; Sat, 24 Dec 2022 10:52:15 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p96on-0002CK-G9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2022 10:52:13 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1p96ol-0004Ld-UF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2022 10:52:13 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1p96oi-0003b3-2M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Dec 2022 16:52:08 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:141924 Archived-At: Samuel Wales wrote: > is there a function for listing all files that have auto > save files that are newer? e.g. for after a computer crash. > i found no such. i want to put such a list at top of scratch buffer > on startup. like this: > auto-save file is newer -- fixme: /home/whatever/wherever/executive.org > auto-save file is newer -- fixme: /home/whatever/wherever/config-file I don't know but I'm looking for something like that as well. I was thinking about a function that iterates over all ~/.emacs.d/auto-save-list files that are not of the cur- rent Emacs process, iterates over all filenames in those, if for one of those filenames there is an auto-save file, vis- its the first one or, if there is none, deletes that ~/.emacs.d/auto-save-list file. The UI flow would be to call the function and deal with the first file, lather, rinse, repeat. As a Gnus user there would be need to be an exception for ~/.newsrc.dribble~ which Gnus handles itself. Tim