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: Wed, 06 Jun 2018 16:35:31 -0400 Message-ID: References: <86lgbs2tav.fsf@zoho.com> <86h8mg2j2z.fsf@zoho.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1528317344 20195 195.159.176.226 (6 Jun 2018 20:35:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2018 20:35:44 +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 Wed Jun 06 22:35:40 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 1fQf9f-0005AZ-VG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2018 22:35:40 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54579 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQfBn-0006Ek-62 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2018 16:37:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58525) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQfBM-0006ET-Hg for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2018 16:37:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQfBI-0000QJ-9i for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2018 16:37:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=54967 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQfBI-0000Pv-0s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2018 16:37:20 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fQf96-0004X8-E3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2018 22:35:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 31 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:UXNBD0u22j6ZNSO9aSJy+jxqSc4= 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:117003 Archived-At: Emanuel Berg writes: > J. David Boyd wrote: > >> Yes there is, but it doesn't do anything: >> erc-cmd-CLEAR >> >> Supposed to "Clear the window content", but the >> code reads: >> >> (defun erc-cmd-CLEAR () "Clear the window >> content." (recenter 0) t) (put 'erc-cmd-CLEAR >> 'process-not-needed t) > > Indeed, it doesn't seem to do anything. You can > ask at gmane.emacs.erc.general (or > erc-discuss@gnu.org) and tell them about it. > >> Anyway, I like to clear out the buffer so >> I can reduce my memory footprint. If there is >> anything important in it, I usually grab it >> and put it into an org file. > > "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....