From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Heerdegen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: How to successively log stuff to a file? Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2014 00:41:00 +0100 Message-ID: <87wqhbaho3.fsf@web.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1391470889 2241 80.91.229.3 (3 Feb 2014 23:41:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 23:41:29 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 04 00:41:35 2014 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 1WAT8x-0001FG-Ao for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 00:41:35 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50066 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WAT8v-0001t1-UX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 03 Feb 2014 18:41:33 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37340) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WAT8n-0001rx-Hp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Feb 2014 18:41:31 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WAT8h-0006lE-4k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Feb 2014 18:41:25 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:37647) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WAT8g-0006kz-UV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 03 Feb 2014 18:41:19 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WAT8e-00017f-Fl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 00:41:16 +0100 Original-Received: from ip-90-187-194-130.web.vodafone.de ([90.187.194.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 00:41:16 +0100 Original-Received: from michael_heerdegen by ip-90-187-194-130.web.vodafone.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 04 Feb 2014 00:41:16 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip-90-187-194-130.web.vodafone.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:RmdVCYyZqhVe2VrmS+erXogD29A= 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:169371 Archived-At: Hello, I have written a little library for logging stuff, i.e. hit keys and executed commands, messages, and file loads [1]. I want that you can define a dribble file where all my logged output would be written to. That would be a good help to reconstruct what you did before a crash, or for writing bug reports (Yes, I know about `open-dribble-file', but it's in C). What is the smartest way to do that (in LISP, of course)? I could save the buffer content to a file regularly. To have a complete log after crashes, I would have to save the buffer after each keystroke. This seems very dumb. There is also `write-region'. But that prints a message in the echo area after each call, i.e. in my case, after each hit key. Is there a smarter/cleverer/more low level way to do what I want? Thanks, Michael. [1] https://github.com/michael-heerdegen/interaction-log.el