[emacs-wiki-discuss] File extensions Re: Planner and Spotlight (OS X)

[Sacha Chua]

Chris Parsons <address@hidden> writes:

>> Is it possible to affix a suffix to all my plan pages without killing 
>> everything else?
> I've had the same problem under Windows with Google Desktop search -- a
> suffix option would certainly be useful.

Here's a quick hack that works best with at least dev/405. As proof of
concept, I am eating my own dogfood. ;) Seems to work so far.

(defun my-rename-planner-files ()
  "Rename all my planner files to .txt if they don't have that extension yet."
  (interactive)
  (mapcar
   (lambda (file)
     (unless (string-match "\\.txt$" (cdr file))
       (rename-file (cdr file) (concat (cdr file) ".txt"))
       (message "%s" (cdr file))))
   (planner-file-alist))
  (with-planner
    (emacs-wiki-refresh-file-alist)))

Call the function above to rename all of your files.

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(setq emacs-wiki-ignored-extensions-regexp "\\.txt")

(defadvice emacs-wiki-find-file (around extension activate)
  "Open the Emacs Wiki page WIKI by name.
If COMMAND is non-nil, it is the function used to visit the file.
If DIRECTORY is non-nil, it is the directory in which the Wiki
page will be created if it does not already exist."
  (unless (interactive-p)
    (setq wiki (cons wiki
                     (cdr (assoc wiki (emacs-wiki-file-alist))))))
  ;; At this point, `wiki' is (GIVEN-PAGE FOUND-FILE).
  (if (cdr wiki)
      (let ((buffer (funcall (or command 'find-file) (cdr wiki))))
        (if (= (prefix-numeric-value current-prefix-arg) 16)
            (with-current-buffer buffer
              (set (make-variable-buffer-local 'emacs-wiki-directories)
                   (cons (file-name-directory (cdr wiki))
                         emacs-wiki-directories))
              (set (make-variable-buffer-local 'emacs-wiki-file-alist)
                   nil)))
        buffer)
    (let* ((dirname (or directory
                        (emacs-wiki-maybe t)
                        (car emacs-wiki-directories)))
           (filename (expand-file-name (car wiki) dirname)))
      (unless (file-exists-p dirname)
        (make-directory dirname t))
      (funcall (or command 'find-file) (concat filename ".txt")))))

;;; TODO: Make this more general, as right now, (concat filename ".txt")
;;; is a hard-coded hack.

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