how to make the "file has auto save data..." message unskippable?

how to make the "file has auto save data..." message unskippable?

[Nobuko Three]

I open a file foo.txt and then my emacs displays the message:

foo.txt has auto save data; consider M-x recover-this-file

in the echo area, but the message rarely catches my attention because I
quickly start editing the file and that makes the message disappear before I
notice it. 

Normally after emacs is crashed, you know you need to use M-x
recover-session, but it could happen that you go to lunch after crash, you
come back, you start emacs again, you forget to do recover-session and open
foo.bar and then also miss the "foo.txt has auto save data..." message.

How do you deal with this problem?

One idea is to make emacs change its background color whenever it echoes
such message. Even if you miss the message, you will always notice the
changed background color which reminds you to check the *Message* buffer.

Is there a hook I can use for this idea?
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Re: how to make the "file has auto save data..." message unskippable?

[Colin S. Miller]

Nobuko Three wrote:
> I open a file foo.txt and then my emacs displays the message:
> 
> foo.txt has auto save data; consider M-x recover-this-file
> 
> 
> Is there a hook I can use for this idea?

Nobuko,
A slightly more drastic way of doing this is
to force you to make a choice when you open the file.

Adding the following code to your .emacs
will make emacs ask you if you want to recover the file
when the file is opened, emacs will beep at you until you answer.

This asks via a Y/N prompt.
If you want Yes/No prompt, change the y-or-n-p
to  yes-or-no-p

This is probably not the neatest elisp, but it does the job.

HTH,
Colin S. Miller




(if (not (fboundp 'time-less-p))
; definition from xemacs21
(defun time-less-p (t1 t2)
   "Say whether time value T1 is less than time value T2."
   (or (< (car t1) (car t2))
       (and (= (car t1) (car t2))
	   (< (nth 1 t1) (nth 1 t2))))))

(defun csm-check-recover ()
   (interactive)
   (let ((buffer-mtime) (autosave-mtime))
     (progn
       (setq buffer-mtime (nth 5 (file-attributes (buffer-file-name))))
       (setq autosave-mtime (nth 5 (file-attributes (make-auto-save-file-name))))
       (if (time-less-p buffer-mtime autosave-mtime)
           (if (file-exists-p (make-auto-save-file-name))
               (if (not (local-variable-p 'csm-check-recover-loop-block (current-buffer)))
                 (progn
                   (make-local-variable 'csm-check-recover-loop-block)
                   (if (y-or-n-p (concat "file " (buffer-file-name) " has autosave data. Recover? "))
                             (recover-file (buffer-file-name))
                     (kill-local-variable 'csm-check-recover-loop-block)))))))))

(add-hook 'find-file-hooks 'csm-check-recover)



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Re: how to make the "file has auto save data..." message unskippable?

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

() Nobuko Three <nbko3@yahoo.com>
() Sun, 5 Jul 2009 10:29:13 -0700 (PDT)

   Normally after emacs is crashed, you know you need to use M-x
   recover-session, but it could happen that you go to lunch after
   crash, you come back, you start emacs again, you forget to do
   recover-session and open foo.bar and then also miss the
   "foo.txt has auto save data..." message.

   How do you deal with this problem?

Go to lunch before the crash!
Think faster but type slower!
Or, (setq message-log-max t),
+ `C-h e' every now and then.

thi

Re: how to make the "file has auto save data..." message unskippable?

[ken]

On 07/06/2009 04:57 AM Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
> () Nobuko Three <nbko3@yahoo.com>
> () Sun, 5 Jul 2009 10:29:13 -0700 (PDT)
> 
>    Normally after emacs is crashed, you know you need to use M-x
>    recover-session, but it could happen that you go to lunch after
>    crash, you come back, you start emacs again, you forget to do
>    recover-session and open foo.bar and then also miss the
>    "foo.txt has auto save data..." message.
> 
>    How do you deal with this problem?
> 
> Go to lunch before the crash!
> Think faster but type slower!
> Or, (setq message-log-max t),
> + `C-h e' every now and then.
> 
> thi

In buffers which have auto-save data I'd like to see an orange
background.  In addition, I'd like to hear a beep when I try to type
into that buffer with the standard message/prompt in the minibuffer that
there's auto-save data... should I pull it in or discard it.

Re: how to make the "file has auto save data..." message unskippable?

[Sean Sieger]

Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@gnuvola.org> writes:

    `C-h e'

Um, I don't do `C-h ?' enough, and I certainly will start using `C-h e'
instead of C-x b to get to *Messages*, Thi, thank you.

Re: how to make the "file has auto save data..." message unskippable?

[Kevin Rodgers]

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Nobuko Three wrote:
> I open a file foo.txt and then my emacs displays the message:
> 
> foo.txt has auto save data; consider M-x recover-this-file
> 
> in the echo area, but the message rarely catches my attention because I
> quickly start editing the file and that makes the message disappear before I
> notice it. 
> 
> Normally after emacs is crashed, you know you need to use M-x
> recover-session, but it could happen that you go to lunch after crash, you
> come back, you start emacs again, you forget to do recover-session and open
> foo.bar and then also miss the "foo.txt has auto save data..." message.
> 
> How do you deal with this problem?
> 
> One idea is to make emacs change its background color whenever it echoes
> such message. Even if you miss the message, you will always notice the
> changed background color which reminds you to check the *Message* buffer.
> 
> Is there a hook I can use for this idea?

Here's a start (recover-this-file-find-file-hook.el attached).

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA

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Re: how to make the "file has auto save data..." message unskippable?

[Kevin Rodgers]

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ken wrote:
> On 07/06/2009 04:57 AM Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote:
>> () Nobuko Three <nbko3@yahoo.com>
>> () Sun, 5 Jul 2009 10:29:13 -0700 (PDT)
>>
>>    Normally after emacs is crashed, you know you need to use M-x
>>    recover-session, but it could happen that you go to lunch after
>>    crash, you come back, you start emacs again, you forget to do
>>    recover-session and open foo.bar and then also miss the
>>    "foo.txt has auto save data..." message.
>>
>>    How do you deal with this problem?
>>
>> Go to lunch before the crash!
>> Think faster but type slower!
>> Or, (setq message-log-max t),
>> + `C-h e' every now and then.
>>
>> thi
> 
> In buffers which have auto-save data I'd like to see an orange
> background.  In addition, I'd like to hear a beep when I try to type
> into that buffer with the standard message/prompt in the minibuffer that
> there's auto-save data... should I pull it in or discard it.

Attached is code that does that, plus undoes all those effects when
you do recover the file.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA

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