From: "Andreas Röhler" <andreas.roehler@easy-emacs.de>
To: AW <alexander.willand@t-online.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Function needed to save a certain buffer every x seconds automatically
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 20:39:09 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52447F4D.3000002@easy-emacs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2264045.EjpuyHfElB@linux-ik7b.site>
Am 26.09.2013 20:14, schrieb AW:
> Am Donnerstag, 26. September 2013, 19:14:06 schrieb Andreas Röhler:
>> Am 26.09.2013 17:38, schrieb AW:
>>> Hello!
>>>
>>> To get a fast refreshing PDF of my LaTeX file, I use latexmk, which
>>> renders a PDF every time the LaTeX file changed on the hard disk.
>>>
>>> I'd like to have a mechanism to save the LaTeX file every x seconds.
>>
>> So you want to save a single buffer, not all, as auto-save-buffers does?
>>
>> In this case here a little step forward
>>
>> (run-with-idle-timer 1 nil (lambda () (set-buffer "MY-TEX")(write-file
>> (expand-file-name "~/my.tex"))(message (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d %a
>> %H:%M" (current-time)))))
>>
>> It runs just once, as timers not to switch off might turn nasty.
>> Gives some messages when saving.
>>
>> Edit the my-tex parts.
>>
>> Andreas
>
> Would it be possible to take the current buffer instead of manually inserting
> the file name?
>
Yes. Didn't write it as the current-buffer changes quit often, than it writes whatever-what-buffer into the file-name specified, etc.
Would expect trouble from that.
BTW reflecting your task, what about an after-change, resp. after-save hook, producing the pdf after every save?
It's up to you.
Cheers,
> And besides that: thank you for your help!
>
> Regards,
> Alexander
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-26 18:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-26 15:38 Function needed to save a certain buffer every x seconds automatically AW
2013-09-26 17:01 ` Michael Heerdegen
2013-09-26 17:14 ` Andreas Röhler
2013-09-26 18:14 ` AW
2013-09-26 18:39 ` Andreas Röhler [this message]
2013-10-02 3:18 ` Kevin Rodgers
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2013-09-26 17:30 AW
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