From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Nordl=F6w?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Can emacs be made to right Messages buffer to disc? Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 08:18:43 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <87aa006d-ef83-4521-989d-90520ab82513@j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> References: <87y74ouxqq.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215099692 21971 80.91.229.12 (3 Jul 2008 15:41:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 15:41:32 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 03 17:42:18 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KEQwe-0008G3-7J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 17:42:04 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42885 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KEQvn-0003a0-3y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:41:11 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 81.170.250.228 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1215098324 8703 127.0.0.1 (3 Jul 2008 15:18:44 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 15:18:44 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=81.170.250.228; posting-account=ytJKAgoAAAA1tg4ScoRszebXiIldA5vg User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; sv-SE; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061015 Firefox/3.0,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:159870 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:55222 Archived-At: > (defun save-messages-buffer () > =A0 =A0(with-current-buffer (get-buffer "*Messages*") > =A0 =A0 =A0(save-buffer 0))) ; or just (basic-save-buffer) > > (add-hook 'pre-command-hook 'save-messages-buffer) > (add-hook 'post-command-hook 'save-messages-buffer) This behaviour is not that useable as it constantly clutters the minibuffer with the message "Wrote ~/.emacs_message". Can we make save- buffer() silent perhaps? It also writes to disc every time every time we navigate in the source code which I believe is not that good for performance. I believe a better solution would be to auto-save the buffer reguarly using a time interval. Somebody know how? /Nordl=F6w