From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Can emacs be made to right Messages buffer to disc? Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:29:29 -0600 Message-ID: References: <87y74ouxqq.fsf@newsguy.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214965818 8065 80.91.229.12 (2 Jul 2008 02:30:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 02:30:18 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 02 04:31:04 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 1KDs7a-0008U1-Jt for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:31:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33364 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KDs6k-0000U7-1j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:30:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KDs6R-0000Tr-0K for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:29:51 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KDs6O-0000TR-E8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:29:50 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43293 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KDs6O-0000TO-9B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:29:48 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:55490 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KDs6N-0007dX-TZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:29:48 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KDs6F-0001cG-V5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:29:39 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-190-29-163.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.190.29.163]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:29:39 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-190-29-163.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 02 Jul 2008 02:29:39 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-190-29-163.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Macintosh/20080421) In-Reply-To: <87y74ouxqq.fsf@newsguy.com> X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:55187 Archived-At: reader@newsguy.com wrote: > I asked this question when emacs 21 was current and if I recall there > was some horribly complicated (requiring coding and good knowledge of > elisp) way to do it. > > I wondered if with 22 or even 23 one can write the \*Messages\* buffer > to disc as a session progresses any easier than before? I vaguely remember that thread, but I couldn't find it on the web. In any case, I think it's not too complicated (everything worth doing in Emacs requires a basic knowledge of Emacs Lisp): (setq message-log-max t); Emacs Lisp!!! (with-current-buffer (get-buffer "*Messages*") (setq buffer-file-name "~/.emacs_messages") (setq buffer-offer-save t)) ; just in case (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) -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA