From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Saving the Messages buffer Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 19:35:15 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87y527euf7.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1390416014 3552 80.91.229.3 (22 Jan 2014 18:40:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 18:40:14 +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 Jan 22 19:40:22 2014 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 1W62iq-0008PN-7e for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 19:40:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37020 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1W62ip-0003gj-Pv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 22 Jan 2014 13:40:19 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!news.stack.nl!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:XrV+/0E735+w+bQPGttvDDLzZ0U= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:203270 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:95538 Archived-At: Sivaram Neelakantan writes: > Simply saving the buffer to the same named file with > overwrite option? If you don't want to use `auto-save-mode', how about scheduling the save with the Emacs' "collaborative" (non-preemptive) idle-timer? The first argument says how many seconds you should be idle before Emacs fires off the defun. The `t' says this shouldn't just happens once, but at every such instance. But if you are idle all day, and still get changes to *Messages*, the function will only be run once, because (what I can see) it waits for non-idleness before it resets. (run-with-idle-timer 10 t (lambda () (with-current-buffer "*Messages*" (write-file "~/emacs_messages" nil) ))) -- underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573