Re: Auto-saved files unexpectedly deleted

[dont.spam.earl@gmail.com]

On Thursday, May 15, 2014 2:55:21 AM UTC-7, Michael Heerdegen wrote:
> dont.spam.earl@gmail.com writes:
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> > Hi all,
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> > I'd like to save "transcripts" of my Shell and other comint sessions
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> > with all I/O, not just the command history. I've created a "comint
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> > transcript" major-mode by adapting auto-saving but I'm running into a
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> > problem.
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> I think it would be better not to hack into auto-save-mode.  Why don't
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> you just save the buffer contents to your own file, e.g. using
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> `write-region'?
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> Michael.


Yes, I'll admit that occurred to me ;) ...especially when I saw that it's part of files.el and not factored out.

I'm reluctant though because I want to do auto-saving of these buffers and I don't want to reimplement and maintain a lot of the auto-save functionality.

Earl