From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [RFC] Added an option to store content of the *scratch* buffer in a file. Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 08:59:06 -0400 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <87bo7jwg2t.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: Reply-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1370524116 25754 80.91.229.3 (6 Jun 2013 13:08:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 13:08:36 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 06 15:08:36 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UkZvc-0000QB-Pi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 15:08:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52127 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UkZvc-00041c-BQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:08:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:32951) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UkZvV-00040Z-Jk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:08:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UkZvR-00012e-1I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 09:08:25 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:48580) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UkZmf-0005ow-1R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 08:59:17 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UkZmd-0000PF-Fs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:59:15 +0200 Original-Received: from pool-72-93-26-80.bstnma.east.verizon.net ([72.93.26.80]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:59:15 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by pool-72-93-26-80.bstnma.east.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:59:15 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-72-93-26-80.bstnma.east.verizon.net X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.130006 (Ma Gnus v0.6) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:e/ydGYSjfHQUe0Hb7HxbiNeIM6c= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:160165 Archived-At: On Wed, 5 Jun 2013 23:00:40 +0200 Michal Nazarewicz wrote: MN> I've been using this functionality for years now and, in my opinion, MN> it's absolutely awesome. It makes *scratch* to extremely useful MN> buffer indeed! MN> I haven't tested this patch extensively yet (since I've been using MN> a simpler version of the code[1]), so at this point I'm just asking MN> for feedback. If you guys are interested in this, I'll test the code MN> properly and send another version at later date. I like it! I would make the parameter accept a string (a file name) instead of 'file: nil => old default behavior t => concat(emacs-directory "scratch") "filename" => use that file That way I can save my scratch buffer in a custom directory (something available over the network for instance). MN> PS. I hope you don't mind I'm using git to send the patch. It's readable for me. Ted