Is there any way to tell M-x tetris to save scores outside of /tmp?

Is there any way to tell M-x tetris to save scores outside of /tmp?

[Daniel R. Anderson]

Hi,

	Every once in a while I use M-x tetris to help me let off some steam,
but scores are stored in /tmp and /tmp is emtied every reboot.  Is there
any way to specify another file, so that scores stick around longer then
1 reboot?  (Granted, the time between reboots may be several weeks, but
it's still dissapointing to boot up and see no tetris scores.  )

-Dan Anderson

Re: Is there any way to tell M-x tetris to save scores outside of /tmp?

[Friedrich Dominicus]

"Daniel R. Anderson" <dan@mathjunkies.com> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> 	Every once in a while I use M-x tetris to help me let off some steam,
> but scores are stored in /tmp and /tmp is emtied every reboot.  Is there
> any way to specify another file, so that scores stick around longer then
> 1 reboot?  (Granted, the time between reboots may be several weeks, but
> it's still dissapointing to boot up and see no tetris scores.  )
Well as I understand you use Emacs regularly. And you do not know how
to find a special file on it?

Ok this is what I've done
C-h a tetris
a window with this name comes up
moved the cursor on it typed F5 which runs
find-symbol-at-point here. Tetris is a functions so 
find-function-at-point would have been fine too

a buffer with tetris.el has been opened.
run C-s score
type it again and found this:
(defvar tetris-score-file "/tmp/tetris-scores"
;; anybody with a well-connected server want to host this?
;(defvar tetris-score-file "/anonymous@ftp.pgt.com:/pub/cgw/tetris-scores"
  "File for holding high scores")

Well, how much easier could one find things?

The answer is 
(setq tetrix-score-file "path_which_persists")

Regards
Friedrich

Re: Is there any way to tell M-x tetris to save scores outside of /tmp?

[Kai Großjohann]

Klaus Straubinger <KSNetz@Arcor.DE> writes:

> By the way, is tetris.el intentionally missing from my Emacs 21.2
> as delivered with RedHat 9?

Some Linux distributions have an extra package for all the *.el
files.  (The general Emacs package contains the *.elc files only.)  I
recommend to install it; the *.el files contain useful documentation,
accessible via M-x finder-commentary RET, for instance.

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Re: Is there any way to tell M-x tetris to save scores outside of /tmp?

[Kai Großjohann]

Klaus Straubinger <KSNetz@Arcor.DE> writes:

> This is exactly the reason why I installed the additional emacs-el
> package. Alas, the tetris game is missing there also. 

Oh, strange.  I have compiled Emacs from source, and have tetris.el.
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Re: Is there any way to tell M-x tetris to save scores outside of /tmp?

[Jesper Harder]

Klaus Straubinger <KSNetz@Arcor.DE> writes:

> Alas, the tetris game is missing there also. Thus my question if it
> had to be removed or if it has been an oversight by RedHat not to
> include it in their latest distribution (it was there in Redhat 8.0).

It's there in Redhat 7.3 as well.  

Hmm, isn't Tetris a trademark or something¹?  Maybe Redhat don't want to
be sued by the holders of the trademark.

¹ <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1997/debian-devel-199709/msg00321.html>

Re: RedHat 9 has no tetris.el (was: Is there any way to tell M-x tetris to save scores outside of /tmp?)

[David Kastrup]

Klaus Straubinger <KSNetz@Arcor.DE> writes:

> kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) wrote:
> 
> > Oh, strange.  I have compiled Emacs from source, and have tetris.el.
> 
> I found a changelog entry in emacs-el, from 2003-01-15:
> 
>     - remove games that we shouldn't ship
> 
> Maybe tetris is a game that RedHat should not ship? However, I see no
> possible reason for this. Is the name "tetris" in any way legally
> protected?

<URL:http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/2430/tetris.html>

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Re: RedHat 9 has no tetris.el

[Daniel R. Anderson]

On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 11:15, Klaus Straubinger wrote:
> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> > <URL:http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/2430/tetris.html>
> 
> Ah well. Are the Emacs maintainers aware of this?
> Should any action be taken?

Well, not everyone happens to live in the US.  If your distro isn't from
the US it may not matter.

-Dan