* Is there any way to tell M-x tetris to save scores outside of /tmp?
@ 2003-04-23 3:35 Daniel R. Anderson
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From: Daniel R. Anderson @ 2003-04-23 3:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi,
Every once in a while I use M-x tetris to help me let off some steam,
but scores are stored in /tmp and /tmp is emtied every reboot. Is there
any way to specify another file, so that scores stick around longer then
1 reboot? (Granted, the time between reboots may be several weeks, but
it's still dissapointing to boot up and see no tetris scores. )
-Dan Anderson
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* Re: Is there any way to tell M-x tetris to save scores outside of /tmp?
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@ 2003-04-23 5:40 ` Friedrich Dominicus
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From: Friedrich Dominicus @ 2003-04-23 5:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
"Daniel R. Anderson" <dan@mathjunkies.com> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Every once in a while I use M-x tetris to help me let off some steam,
> but scores are stored in /tmp and /tmp is emtied every reboot. Is there
> any way to specify another file, so that scores stick around longer then
> 1 reboot? (Granted, the time between reboots may be several weeks, but
> it's still dissapointing to boot up and see no tetris scores. )
Well as I understand you use Emacs regularly. And you do not know how
to find a special file on it?
Ok this is what I've done
C-h a tetris
a window with this name comes up
moved the cursor on it typed F5 which runs
find-symbol-at-point here. Tetris is a functions so
find-function-at-point would have been fine too
a buffer with tetris.el has been opened.
run C-s score
type it again and found this:
(defvar tetris-score-file "/tmp/tetris-scores"
;; anybody with a well-connected server want to host this?
;(defvar tetris-score-file "/anonymous@ftp.pgt.com:/pub/cgw/tetris-scores"
"File for holding high scores")
Well, how much easier could one find things?
The answer is
(setq tetrix-score-file "path_which_persists")
Regards
Friedrich
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* Re: Is there any way to tell M-x tetris to save scores outside of /tmp?
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@ 2003-04-24 16:41 ` Kai Großjohann
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From: Kai Großjohann @ 2003-04-24 16:41 UTC (permalink / raw)
Klaus Straubinger <KSNetz@Arcor.DE> writes:
> By the way, is tetris.el intentionally missing from my Emacs 21.2
> as delivered with RedHat 9?
Some Linux distributions have an extra package for all the *.el
files. (The general Emacs package contains the *.elc files only.) I
recommend to install it; the *.el files contain useful documentation,
accessible via M-x finder-commentary RET, for instance.
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@ 2003-04-25 14:08 ` Kai Großjohann
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2003-04-25 14:33 ` Is there any way to tell M-x tetris to save scores outside of /tmp? Jesper Harder
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From: Kai Großjohann @ 2003-04-25 14:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
Klaus Straubinger <KSNetz@Arcor.DE> writes:
> This is exactly the reason why I installed the additional emacs-el
> package. Alas, the tetris game is missing there also.
Oh, strange. I have compiled Emacs from source, and have tetris.el.
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2003-04-25 14:08 ` Kai Großjohann
@ 2003-04-25 14:33 ` Jesper Harder
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From: Jesper Harder @ 2003-04-25 14:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
Klaus Straubinger <KSNetz@Arcor.DE> writes:
> Alas, the tetris game is missing there also. Thus my question if it
> had to be removed or if it has been an oversight by RedHat not to
> include it in their latest distribution (it was there in Redhat 8.0).
It's there in Redhat 7.3 as well.
Hmm, isn't Tetris a trademark or something¹? Maybe Redhat don't want to
be sued by the holders of the trademark.
¹ <http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1997/debian-devel-199709/msg00321.html>
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* Re: RedHat 9 has no tetris.el (was: Is there any way to tell M-x tetris to save scores outside of /tmp?)
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@ 2003-04-25 14:51 ` David Kastrup
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From: David Kastrup @ 2003-04-25 14:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
Klaus Straubinger <KSNetz@Arcor.DE> writes:
> kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) wrote:
>
> > Oh, strange. I have compiled Emacs from source, and have tetris.el.
>
> I found a changelog entry in emacs-el, from 2003-01-15:
>
> - remove games that we shouldn't ship
>
> Maybe tetris is a game that RedHat should not ship? However, I see no
> possible reason for this. Is the name "tetris" in any way legally
> protected?
<URL:http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/2430/tetris.html>
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
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@ 2003-04-25 23:00 ` Daniel R. Anderson
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From: Daniel R. Anderson @ 2003-04-25 23:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: help-gnu-emacs
On Fri, 2003-04-25 at 11:15, Klaus Straubinger wrote:
> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> > <URL:http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/2430/tetris.html>
>
> Ah well. Are the Emacs maintainers aware of this?
> Should any action be taken?
Well, not everyone happens to live in the US. If your distro isn't from
the US it may not matter.
-Dan
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