On Mar 25, 2009, at 7:24 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
What would happen then if one called remember from a previous
remember buffer, then saved it?
I believe this will create a new backup.
- Carsten
Alan Davis
"An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need
for one non
I did look at this possibility, but then found it better to tag
the backup files with dates.
- Carsten
On Mar 24, 2009, at 3:22 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
Wasn't going to say anything but at risk of sticking my foot in my
mouth:
I learned that the convention for naming backups in Emacs is the
What would happen then if one called remember from a previous remember
buffer, then saved it?
Alan Davis
"An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need for one
non-existent." ---Lord Raleigh (John William Strutt), or
else his son, who was also a scientist.
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 04:29, Carsten Dominik wrote:
>> After that,
>>
>> (when (plusp number)
>> (message "you have %s saved remember files" number))
>
> Hmmm. When should this happen? Not after a
> successful remember process, I'd say.
The number will usually be zero, so that is when I
Wasn't going to say anything but at risk of sticking my foot in my mouth:
I learned that the convention for naming backups in Emacs is they end in ~.
Is it possible that if this is done, Emacs will automatically use the
mechanism that is available to keep a given number of old versions and a
given
On Mar 24, 2009, at 4:29 AM, Samuel Wales wrote:
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 08:16, Carsten Dominik
wrote:
I have now added a variable `org-remember-backup-directory'.
Set this to a directory, and every remember buffer
you create will end up in a separate file, with date
and time in the file nam
On Mar 24, 2009, at 4:42 AM, Samuel Wales wrote:
If you set auto-save-visited-file-name buffer-local in that buffer,
you'll have the latest auto-saved contents in the file.
Good one, I am doing that.
Thanks.
- Carsten
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On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 08:16, Carsten Dominik wrote:
> I have now added a variable `org-remember-backup-directory'.
> Set this to a directory, and every remember buffer
> you create will end up in a separate file, with date
> and time in the file name, so that you can always recover.
That is per
Carsten:
This is perfect! Thank you again.
Alan Davis
"Study and, in general the pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of
activity in which we are permitted to remain children all of our
lives."
Albert Einstein
"An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need
Carsten Dominik writes:
>
> Note that, if you use remember frequently, you will create
> a lot of these files. So maybe we need to think of an expiry
> mechanism? Like, remove any files older than a few days?
If anyone wants to do this deletion manually, I do this in a script
which backs up m
On Mar 22, 2009, at 3:01 AM, Alan E. Davis wrote:
[I am reposting this to the list, as I'd intended. IOt turned out
I'd responded only to the OP.]
I posted regarding this problem in an earlier thread about losing
relatively large and complex *remember* buffers that I had forgotten
to s
[I am reposting this to the list, as I'd intended. IOt turned out I'd
responded only to the OP.]
I posted regarding this problem in an earlier thread about losing relatively
large and complex *remember* buffers that I had forgotten to save (C-c
C-c). My usage has improved, and this has been muc
org-remember -- use a file
On more than one occasion, I have composed something using
org-remember, and mistakenly hit a key for killing the
buffer. With all buffers except org-remember, this kills a
buffer if it has no unsaved text, and asks what buffer to
kill if it does, at which point I quit.
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