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From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Reading and Writing list to/from a file.
Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2009 21:02:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <goia5c$6u1$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2eixgz1ue.fsf@nschum.de>

Nikolaj Schumacher wrote:
> Nurullah Akkaya <nurullah.akkaya@blooby.com> wrote:  > I would like to 
> keep a elisp list between sessions.  What is the > correct way of 
> storing it? so that i don't have to parse it line by > line.  How can i 
> save it as a list and evaluate the file after > opening?
> As far as I know, there is no complete library for this.
> 
> But look at what `recentf-save-list' in recentf.el does.
> The list still has do be parsed, but `load' can take care of it.

recentf-save-list uses recentf-dump-variable, which uses insert.

Does anyone know why recentf-dump-variable doesn't use print?

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA





      reply	other threads:[~2009-03-03  4:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-01 13:10 Reading and Writing list to/from a file Nurullah Akkaya
2009-03-02  9:54 ` Nikolaj Schumacher
2009-03-03  4:02   ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]

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