When saveplace.el reaches save-place-limit, the file positions retained
via ~/.emacs-places are the first limit-many in alphabetical order.
I hoped instead it would be the first limit-many most recently used.
Ie. drop the least recently visited files in order to enforce the limit.
I struck this when I reached my save-place-limit with lots of files I
had visited long ago but which happened to be alphabetically before ones
I was visiting now. The save-place feature no longer saved places
across sessions for files I now visited.
The effect can be seen by setting a small limit per init.el below. Then
foo.el to visit three files successively
HOME=`pwd` emacs -Q -l ./init.el -l ./foo.el
This leaves .emacs-places (in the current directory due to faked $HOME)
containing
(("/tmp/aa" . 4)
("/tmp/bb" . 4)
("/tmp/cc" . 4))
Notice /tmp/cc was the most recently visited file but it's at the end of
the list and will be truncated when load-save-place-alist-from-file
enforces save-place-limit of 2.
HOME=`pwd` emacs -Q -l ./init.el /tmp/cc
=>
point is at start of buffer /tmp/cc
I hoped it would be at the end from the last visit
Note that you must exit and restart emacs to see the effect, because
save-place-limit is only enforced by load-save-place-alist-from-file.
Within a session there's no limit, only in reading the .emacs-places
file on restarting emacs.
I get some joy from not sorting save-place-alist when saving per change
below.
I believe save-place-to-alist keeps save-place-alist in "most recent
first" order (by delq and re-push to move an existing entry to the
start), and that that order should be preserved when saving.
2013-03-04 Kevin Ryde <address@hidden>
* saveplace.el (save-place-alist-to-file): Don't `sort'
save-place-alist alphabetically, keep it in "most recent first" order.
This ensures save-place-limit drops the least recently visited files,
not the alphabetically last files. Dropping alphabetically last files
had meant save-place stopped working across sessions after
.emacs-places filled with alphabetically early names.
init.el
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foo.el
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