From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Thierry Volpiatto Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: automatically save a specific buffer on exit Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:11:42 +0100 Message-ID: <87hc39uctt.fsf@tux.homenetwork> References: <1233779280.689554@arno.fh-trier.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233782759 17477 80.91.229.12 (4 Feb 2009 21:25:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Feb 2009 21:25:59 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 04 22:27:13 2009 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 1LUpGw-0003fT-2z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 22:27:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39439 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LUpFd-0002D7-75 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:25:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LUp9T-0007KC-An for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:19:19 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LUp9Q-0007IK-45 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:19:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35114 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LUp9Q-0007IH-0t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:19:16 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:39121 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LUp9P-00039N-MZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:19:15 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LUp9K-0004Xt-CM for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:19:10 +0000 Original-Received: from 40.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net ([77.197.77.40]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:19:10 +0000 Original-Received: from thierry.volpiatto by 40.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 04 Feb 2009 21:19:10 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 54 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 40.77.197-77.rev.gaoland.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CeIkEWSPPcvq+PNjESWQi+yuAu4= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:61905 Archived-At: Hi, Andreas Politz writes: > Hi, > > I have a persistent scratch buffer with a file attached > and I would like emacs to have it saved whenever I > leave the editor. > 'kill-emacs-hook' runs to late and `write-file-functions' > doesn't seem to be aproppriate either. Kill-emacs-hook work fine here. Here the code i use: ,---- | (defvar save-scratch-file "~/.emacs.d/save-scratch.el") | (defun tv-save-scratch (&optional append) | (interactive "P") | (with-current-buffer "*scratch*" | (widen) | (goto-char (point-min)) | (forward-line 1) | (let* ((beg (point)) | (end (point-max)) | (buffer-contents (buffer-substring beg end))) | (save-excursion | (find-file save-scratch-file) | (if (or current-prefix-arg | append) | (progn | (goto-char (point-max)) | (insert buffer-contents) | (save-buffer) | (kill-buffer (current-buffer))) | (erase-buffer) | (goto-char (point-min)) | (insert buffer-contents) | (save-buffer) | (kill-buffer (current-buffer))))))) | | (defun tv-restore-scratch-buffer () | (with-current-buffer "*scratch*" | (goto-char (point-max)) | (forward-line) | (insert-file-contents save-scratch-file))) | | (add-hook 'kill-emacs-hook 'tv-save-scratch) | (add-hook 'emacs-startup-hook 'tv-restore-scratch-buffer) `---- -- A + Thierry Volpiatto Location: Saint-Cyr-Sur-Mer - France