I'm currently using leo as my main note-taking application and I find it very useful to have auto-saving, so I enabled the auto-save module.
I felt a little nervous about using auto-save and decided I wanted a git commit on every save so I would have a history in case anything goes wrong. I read Vitalije's post from not too long ago about overriding the ctrl-s key to perform extra actions, but with auto-save I'm not using any keystrokes. I decided to use the 'entr' utility (http://entrproject.org - which I learned about on this list a long time ago) to watch for changes to my .leo file and automatically execute a git commit. I use an @script script in my leo outline to launch the entr process in the background and it is working great. I did encounter one problem with the entr process out-living the leo process. IOW, it doesn't exit when leo exits. So then when I launch leo again I have two entr processes running, both of which are trying to run auto git commits. To work around that problem, I found a way to ensure a 2nd instance of that process doesn't get launched if it is already running and I'm satisfied with it. It doesn't solve the issue of the entr process out-living leo, but it solves the more serious concern of having two instances competing with each other. It would have been better if instead (or in addtion), I would have found a way to get the pid of the backround entr process and kill it when leo exits. But as I said, I'm satisfied enough for now with what I have. Here is the (linux only) script code (assumes the 'git init' has already been run in the directory with the leo file and the leo file has been commited once): # The ampersand is special syntax for leo to execute the command # in the background. The "flock ... 9>" part is because when leo # exits, the background process doesn't get cleaned up and this # flock "incantation" will prevent a second instance from launching # see http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/flock.1.html # The flock utility is Linux only. # The 'entr' utility (http://entrproject.org) will watch the given list # of filenames and run the commands whenever changed g.execute_shell_commands( f"""&( flock -n 9 || exit 1 ls {c.fileName()} | entr -s 'git diff . | cat git commit -m "$(date +%Y-%m-%d) autocommit" .' ) 9> {c.fileName()}.entr.lock """ ) Brian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/CAO5X8CyruizJRFHk-woZWHKn_Fz5a0T1gy5vBX9TivJ42rWv8w%40mail.gmail.com.
