From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Function needed to save a certain buffer every x seconds automatically Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 19:01:58 +0200 Message-ID: <87ioxncy9l.fsf@web.de> References: <6906143.LRjCqdsP7e@linux-ik7b.site> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1380214959 32739 80.91.229.3 (26 Sep 2013 17:02:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 17:02:39 +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 Sep 26 19:02:42 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1VPExe-0000Pt-A0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 19:02:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59020 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPExd-0000R3-U0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:02:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60543) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPExL-0000Pr-TK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:02:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPExA-00028f-PQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:02:23 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:58603) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VPExA-00028G-JB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 13:02:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VPEx8-0008Km-JF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 19:02:10 +0200 Original-Received: from dslb-188-110-142-205.pools.arcor-ip.net ([188.110.142.205]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 19:02:10 +0200 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by dslb-188-110-142-205.pools.arcor-ip.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2013 19:02:10 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 40 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dslb-188-110-142-205.pools.arcor-ip.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:KBHN3LbS/n9kBHdFcrFkP/yJReM= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:93618 Archived-At: Hi AW, > Hello! > > To get a fast refreshing PDF of my LaTeX file, I use latexmk, which > renders a PDF every time the LaTeX file changed on the hard disk. > > I'd like to have a mechanism to save the LaTeX file every x seconds. > > I found this solution: > > (require 'auto-save-buffers) > (run-with-idle-timer 1 t 'auto-save-buffers) > > If I put that into my .emacs, Emacs saves every buffer immediately after a > change of the buffer. > > But it is cumbersome to switch that off in the .emacs file, if not > needed, and > on, if needed. Could someone write a function to switch this line > > (run-with-idle-timer 1 t 'auto-save-buffers) > > on and off? For the short I only found "auto-save-buffers-enhanced.el", which seems to solve your problem - there is a function `auto-save-buffers-enhanced-toggle-activity' which seems to do exactly what you want. Mmh, wait, the original package also has a toggle function, `auto-save-buffers-toggle'. Isn't that what you want? In both cases, you must have started the timer before toggling does anything. Regards, Michael.