"John Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Evan Monroig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Sometimes I am writing a long note using 'M-x remember', for example >> summing notes taken during a meeting, and I have a phone call or a >> thought that I want to take note of by using 'M-x remember'. [...] > I'm away from the source right now, so I can't check, but isn't > autosave off by default in Remember buffers? > > I'm not keen on the idea without hearing some other use cases. Do the > normal emacs ways of handling this, like changing the buffer name, not > work? > > a note, with title and annotation, then flesh it out on the planner > page, and run planner-update-note at the end. This approach has many > benefits, including safety, font-locking according to the muse syntax, > and the use of other modes like allout. You could probably make > remember mode do all those things too, but it strikes me that the > purpose and best use for remember is for quick, temporary things. > > Do you guys write code in a Remember buffer too :) ?
I agree that if one is writing *long* notes then it is better to edit them in some other place such as a planner page. However, the ability to have multiple remember buffers would be useful, in my view, when one is in the middle of "remembering" one quick, temporary thing, and another, distinct thing to remember intervenes. The preamble to the source code in remember.el makes a good case for removing the labour of storing small pieces of data: ...the initial 'just remember this' impulse should be as close to simply throwing the data at Emacs as possible I think that having multiple remember buffers would remove some of the labour of remembering: renaming the buffer or saving the note and switching to the buffer where the thing is remembered. Thus, the ability to have multiple remember buffers seems to me to be in keeping with the spirit of the remember facility: to make it as easy as possible to save small pieces of information. It would not be hard to mitigate the dangers of losing data when exiting Emacs by adding something to kill-emacs-query-functions, as Andrew Korty mentions elsewhere. And it would also not be hard to arrange some sort of auto-saving, perhaps using an auto-save file in the style of Gnus. In any case, I suggest that this issue is separate from the issue of multiple remember buffers. Regards, -- Jim Ottaway _______________________________________________ Planner-el-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/planner-el-discuss
