From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: reader@newsguy.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Can emacs be made to right Messages buffer to disc? Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 09:22:37 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87y74ouxqq.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214749403 2702 80.91.229.12 (29 Jun 2008 14:23:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:23:23 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jun 29 16:24:09 2008 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 1KCxp2-0004cF-Lh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:24:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39061 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KCxoC-0004E8-FN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:23:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KCxnr-0004B9-0Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:22:55 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KCxnq-0004AE-B4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:22:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54301 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KCxnq-0004A6-2R for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:22:54 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:45252 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 1KCxnp-0005E0-Ox for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 10:22:53 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KCxnj-0007Fp-TD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:22:47 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-162-73-42.hsd1.il.comcast.net ([67.162.73.42]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:22:47 +0000 Original-Received: from reader by c-67-162-73-42.hsd1.il.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:22:47 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 6 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-162-73-42.hsd1.il.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Q+h4j7TMK6WliKj0m83wsgBCV24= X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: 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:55132 Archived-At: I asked this question when emacs 21 was current and if I recall there was some horribly complicated (requiring coding and good knowledge of elisp) way to do it. I wondered if with 22 or even 23 one can write the \*Messages\* buffer to disc as a session progresses any easier than before?