From: Kalman Reti <kalman.reti@gmail.com>
To: Kevin Layer <layer@known.net>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: comint shell buffers autosaved to a file?
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 16:34:49 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ7Ts_116gd8YbzPtCF4-DR2c++A10gJEg9=eE7D+7NXOpodWg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGSZTjJvmWCju-4rpnxHrqeLN9N9cUd7OWhC1kHgSHagR1qDrA@mail.gmail.com>
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I just c-x c-w to a filename of my own choosing. Autosaves are then
#<myfilename>#. This has worked for many years in both shell and rlogin
buffers.
On Mar 28, 2018 2:05 PM, "Kevin Layer" <layer@known.net> wrote:
I don't know if it's cool to share this here, but I wanted to in case
someone else wanted to do the same, and have them save all in the same
place:
(defvar my-shell-auto-save-directory
(expand-file-name "~/tmp/shell-auto-saves/"))
;; Make sure it exists, this is an important directory:
(make-directory my-shell-auto-save-directory t)
(defvar my-shell-auto-save-file-name-prefix
(let ((s (system-name)))
(when (string-match "\\(.*\\)\\.franz\\.com$" s)
(setq s (substring s (match-beginning 1) (match-end 1))))
(format "%s-" s)))
(defun my-make-shell-auto-save-file-name ()
(interactive) ;; debugging only
(let* ((name (buffer-name))
base suffix)
(when (string-match "^\\*\\(.*\\)\\*\\(<\\(.*\\)>\\)?$" name)
(setq base (match-string 1 name))
(setq suffix (match-string 3 name))
(if suffix
(format "%s%s%s-%s.log" my-shell-auto-save-directory
my-shell-auto-save-file-name-prefix
base suffix)
(format "%s%s%s.log" my-shell-auto-save-directory
my-shell-auto-save-file-name-prefix base)))))
(defun my--around-advice--make-auto-save-file-name (orig-func)
(let (fn)
(cond
((and (null buffer-file-name)
(or (eq 'ssh-mode major-mode) (eq 'shell-mode major-mode))
(setq fn (my-make-shell-auto-save-file-name)))
fn)
(t (funcall orig-func)))))
(advice-add 'make-auto-save-file-name
:around
#'my--around-advice--make-auto-save-file-name)
;; Now, make sure auto-save-mode is on, for shell and ssh buffers:
(defun my-turn-on-auto-save-mode-hook ()
(auto-save-mode 1))
(add-hook 'shell-mode-hook 'my-turn-on-auto-save-mode-hook t)
(add-hook 'ssh-mode-hook 'my-turn-on-auto-save-mode-hook t)
On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 4:42 PM, Kevin Layer <layer@known.net> wrote:
> OK, the file was created after the auto-save-interval. Thanks, I'll think
> about whether this is good enough.
>
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 4:13 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Mär 27 2018, Kevin Layer <layer@known.net> wrote:
>>
>> > Any ideas on this? I'm willing to do some work to add it, if it's not
>> too
>> > hard.
>>
>> Just enable auto-save-mode.
>>
>> Andreas.
>>
>> --
>> Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org
>> GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5
>> "And now for something completely different."
>>
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-03-29 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-03-27 22:00 comint shell buffers autosaved to a file? Kevin Layer
2018-03-27 23:13 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-03-27 23:36 ` Kevin Layer
2018-03-27 23:39 ` Kevin Layer
2018-03-27 23:42 ` Kevin Layer
2018-03-28 18:05 ` Kevin Layer
2018-03-29 20:34 ` Kalman Reti [this message]
2018-04-02 20:10 ` Juri Linkov
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