From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reuben Thomas Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: desktop.el: autosave? Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 15:47:38 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: References: <8763zjfe0v.fsf@jurta.org> <87mysridxt.fsf@jurta.org> <20071206153806.GA20731@www.trapp.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1196956089 11003 80.91.229.12 (6 Dec 2007 15:48:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 15:48:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: tomas@tuxteam.de Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 06 16:48:18 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1J0IxO-0006c7-0f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 16:48:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J0Ix7-00080c-68 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:47:53 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J0Ix2-0007yX-Vo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:47:49 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1J0Ix2-0007xJ-6G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:47:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1J0Ix2-0007x9-1I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:47:48 -0500 Original-Received: from pelican.sc3d.org ([216.184.201.86]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (SSL 3.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1J0Iwy-00079P-1L; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:47:44 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=key1024; d=sc3d.org; c=nofws; q=dns; b=LxmgDQ5W43YY2UchnEL3AqIU0fhzavBt5y1NTP3iZwsGJYzzIOZm3XQeC0rKywWoNtr1d1vd5YAx8W/AN+bICcCS2IOKAdXRq+uAUWeGC6I1VaNhd+4/lDniLsazsPAIrbibo2TuphU6A4jKqcLrWXpOBNjwJYSh7+6PSbiANg8= Original-Received: from localhost (cpc4-hitc1-0-0-cust477.lutn.cable.ntl.com [86.11.13.222]) by pelican.sc3d.org (pf ESMTP spamd IP-based SPAM blocker) with ASMTP (SSL) id LBB06242; Thu, 06 Dec 2007 10:47:42 -0500 X-X-Sender: rrt@localhost.localdomain In-Reply-To: <20071206153806.GA20731@www.trapp.net> User-Agent: Alpine 0.99999 (DEB 796 2007-11-08) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1+ X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:84797 Archived-At: On Thu, 6 Dec 2007, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 02:58:42PM +0000, Reuben Thomas wrote: >> On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Juri Linkov wrote: >> >>> I'm not sure an idle timer is good for this feature. I want to auto-save >>> the desktop at quite long time intervals [...] > >> Why do you want to save at such long intervals? Is there a performance >> problem with just using the idle timer? [...] > > Disk spin-up on laaptops comes to mind. The longer the intervals the > longer bettery (and disk!) life. That argument applies to any auto-save, not just desktop. I'm trying to work out why one would want one interval for auto-save and another for desktop save.