From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: dboyd2@mmm.com (J. David Boyd) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Problem with simple script to clean out an ERC buffer Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2018 10:04:06 -0400 Message-ID: References: <86lgbs2tav.fsf@zoho.com> <86h8mg2j2z.fsf@zoho.com> <864lie29p0.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1528380175 24950 195.159.176.226 (7 Jun 2018 14:02:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2018 14:02:55 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (cygwin) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 07 16:02:51 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fQvV2-0006He-Co for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2018 16:02:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58161 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQvX7-0005du-Qs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2018 10:04:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:40345) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQvWZ-0005aY-1w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2018 10:04:27 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQvWU-0002PX-F4 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2018 10:04:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=60606 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQvWU-0002P9-6I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2018 10:04:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fQvUK-0005AT-0i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Jun 2018 16:02:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:6m9vT7zytcA9qBxS9+6BhStu9N4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117014 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > J. David Boyd wrote: > >>> "Reduce the memory footprint"??? It is just >>> an Emacs text buffer! >> >> Yes, but I have many many buffers open, lots >> of ERC buffers open, and just don't like >> having 30k rows of text that I have already >> read hanging around.... > > Wow, you read a lot of IRC chats! > > Still, perhaps one can automate this somehow, > like once every day, iterate all the ERC > buffers, see if they are too long, and if so, > clear them. > > That wouldn't take into consideration what > you've read or not so perhaps you still want > it manually. I definitely want it to be a manual process. Sometimes I don't get back to check a chatroom for a day or more, so I don't want anything truncating it before I get there.