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Re: desktop.el: autosave?
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: desktop.el: autosave? |
Date: |
Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:57:59 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
> But maybe instead of requiring putting this code in .emacs for
> every user who want to save the desktop periodically, we should
> add a new user option to desktop.el that specifies time interval
> of auto-saving?
>
> I agree, we should add some such feature.
>
> I think the default value of `auto-save-timeout'
> is too frequent for a heavy function `desktop-save'.
>
> Maybe so, but auto-saving based on idle time is an important feature.
> Whatever we write for automatically saving the desktop should also
> include a feature to do it after a certain amount of idle time,
> perhaps 5 mins by default. That way, if you occasionally take typing
> breaks, Emacs will never interrupt your actual work to save the desktop.
I'm not sure an idle timer is good for this feature. I want to auto-save
the desktop at quite long time intervals (an hour or so), but usually
Emacs is not idle for this time. So it seems we need a non-idle timer.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
- Re: desktop.el: autosave?, Richard Stallman, 2007/12/01
- Re: desktop.el: autosave?,
Juri Linkov <=
- Re: desktop.el: autosave?, martin rudalics, 2007/12/04
- Re: desktop.el: autosave?, Richard Stallman, 2007/12/04
- Re: desktop.el: autosave?, martin rudalics, 2007/12/05
- Re: desktop.el: autosave?, Juri Linkov, 2007/12/05
- Re: desktop.el: autosave?, martin rudalics, 2007/12/05
- Re: desktop.el: autosave?, Juri Linkov, 2007/12/05
- Re: desktop.el: autosave?, Richard Stallman, 2007/12/06
- Re: desktop.el: autosave?, Richard Stallman, 2007/12/05
- Re: desktop.el: autosave?, Juri Linkov, 2007/12/06
Re: desktop.el: autosave?, Richard Stallman, 2007/12/04