From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Can emacs be made to right Messages buffer to disc? Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 12:48:59 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <87y74ouxqq.fsf@newsguy.com> <87aa006d-ef83-4521-989d-90520ab82513@j22g2000hsf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215117644 24340 80.91.229.12 (3 Jul 2008 20:40:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 20:40:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 03 22:41:30 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 1KEVcN-0004SF-DK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 22:41:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58381 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KEVbW-0002zB-Ca for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:40:34 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!h1g2000prh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.6.97.120 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1215114539 25106 127.0.0.1 (3 Jul 2008 19:48:59 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Jul 2008 19:48:59 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: h1g2000prh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=24.6.97.120; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X 10_4_11; en) AppleWebKit/525.18 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.1.1 Safari/525.18, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:159880 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:55233 Archived-At: Nordl=C3=B6w wrote: =C2=ABI believe a better solution would be to auto-save the buffer reguarly using a time interval. Somebody know how?=C2=BB You can use the run-with-timer function. Here's a example snippet: ; record opened files (session) every 5 min (run-with-timer 600 600 'desktop-save "~/") Xah =E2=88=91 http://xahlee.org/ =E2=98=84 On Jul 3, 8:18 am, Nordl=C3=B6w wrote: > > (defun save-messages-buffer () > > (with-current-buffer (get-buffer "*Messages*") > > (save-buffer 0))) ; or just (basic-save-buffer) > > > (add-hook 'pre-command-hook 'save-messages-buffer) > > (add-hook 'post-command-hook 'save-messages-buffer) > > This behaviour is not that useable as it constantly clutters the > minibuffer with the message "Wrote ~/.emacs_message". Can we make save- > buffer() silent perhaps? > > It also writes to disc every time every time we navigate in the source > code which I believe is not that good for performance. I believe a > better solution would be to auto-save the buffer reguarly using a time > interval. Somebody know how? > > /Nordl=C3=B6w