From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>, 15331@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15331: desktop should auto-save on idle time
Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 23:58:16 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d2odu593.fsf@mail.jurta.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAeL0SSt5Z=AGPiCTu-K4h+1UfB_3t-n_fmEjoezBhs6JhJpwg@mail.gmail.com> (Juanma Barranquero's message of "Thu, 12 Sep 2013 02:56:20 +0200")
>> You can't use idle timers even with such reasonable timeouts
>> as 5 minutes between saves, i.e. when the user needs to save
>> the desktop every 5 minutes, with idle timers the user have to sit
>> inactively 5 minutes waiting for Godot^H^H^H^H^H desktop saving.
>> Thus desktop saving requires two different timers out of necessity.
>
> Or, the desktop can be saved after 5 minutes (or whatever) of idle
> time, and if the user needs more frequency, they can bind
> desktop-save-in-desktop-dir and do it manually...
Or use the timer to display every 5 minutes a message
"Don't forget to type M-x desktop-save-in-desktop-dir RET" :-)
> When I'm writing or translating with LibreOffice, I do not trust
> autosaving. I type Ctrl-S after every paragraph. Seems saner.
Unlike LibreOffice, we can fix desktop.el in a way
that you'll trust Emacs autosaving :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-12 20:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-10 20:57 bug#15331: Idle timer for desktop Juri Linkov
2013-09-11 17:23 ` bug#15331: desktop should auto-save on idle time Sam Steingold
2013-09-11 19:45 ` Juri Linkov
2013-09-12 0:56 ` Juanma Barranquero
2013-09-12 20:58 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2013-09-16 21:18 ` Juri Linkov
2013-12-16 21:49 ` Juri Linkov
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