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From: Joost Kremers <joost.m.kremers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: erin-mode: problem with auto-mode-alist and saving
Date: 23 Oct 2015 11:26:41 GMT	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <d8ujrhF87liU2@mid.individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87h9lhx39e.fsf@hornfels.zedat.fu-berlin.de

Loris Bennett wrote:
> Joost Kremers <joost.m.kremers@gmail.com> writes:
>> I'm pretty sure with edit-server.el you're not really supposed to save
>> the buffer. Just type `C-x #` when you're done editing. That'll send the
>> contents of the buffer to Chrome and kill the buffer.
>
> Yes, it really doesn't look as if you are supposed to save the buffer.
> However, if I'm taking the minutes of an hour-and-a-half-long meeting in
> a corner of the building where the wifi is a bit flakey, my 'C-x C-s'
> reflex kicks in.  However, as the text is only written to the text box,
> it won't help me if the connection goes down just as I try to save
> within the browser.

Perhaps you should just keep the minutes in a separate temp file and
only copy&paste it to the browser when the meeting's done?

> It would be nice if there were some way to attach a file to a file-less
> buffer, just in case.

Found this on Stack Overflow:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8849661/is-it-possible-to-autosave-temporary-buffers-that-are-not-visiting-a-file

Apparently, `auto-save-mode` will work with buffers that are not
visiting a file. 

Also:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18770669/how-can-i-save-as-in-emacs-without-visiting-the-new-file

For ways to manually write a buffer to a file without visiting it.

HTH



-- 
Joost Kremers                                   joostkremers@fastmail.fm
Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht
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      reply	other threads:[~2015-10-23 11:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-10-22 14:03 erin-mode: problem with auto-mode-alist and saving Loris Bennett
2015-10-22 14:19 ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found] ` <mailman.791.1445523623.7904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-10-22 15:05   ` Loris Bennett
2015-10-22 22:34     ` Stefan Monnier
     [not found]     ` <mailman.839.1445553269.7904.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-10-23  7:49       ` Loris Bennett
2015-10-23  9:58         ` Joost Kremers
2015-10-23 10:55           ` Loris Bennett
2015-10-23 11:26             ` Joost Kremers [this message]

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