Killing old buffers?

Killing old buffers?

[Elena]

Hello,

is there a way to make buffers expire? That is, I'd like to get rid of
buffers I've not touched in an interval of time (let's say: one day).

`midnight-mode' is meant to achieve that, but it doesn't play nicely
with Desktop mode when Emacs is restarted (read bottom of this page:
http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MidnightMode).

Have you looked into this, too? Have you found a solution?

Thanks.

Re: Killing old buffers?

[Colin S. Miller]

Elena wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> is there a way to make buffers expire? That is, I'd like to get rid of
> buffers I've not touched in an interval of time (let's say: one day).
> 
> `midnight-mode' is meant to achieve that, but it doesn't play nicely
> with Desktop mode when Emacs is restarted (read bottom of this page:
> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/MidnightMode).
> 
> Have you looked into this, too? Have you found a solution?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

Hi Elena,

In ibuffer-mode, you can mark all files that have not been
modified for a given period (defaults to 72 hours) with '.'

You can also sort the list of buffer by the last time you
viewed them with 's v'.

I don't use desktop-mode, but looking at the webpage you
gave, ibuffer-mode might have the same problem.
It might be better to modify desktop-mode to record
the buffer's display time.



HTH,
Colin S. Miller

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