Re: How to save custom variable programmatically?

[Marcin Borkowski]

On 2020-11-10, at 20:19, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:

> * Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> [2020-11-10 17:36]:
>> Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:
>> 
>> > If there is anyway of storing data from Emacs that is standard I do
>> > not know about it. Welcoming tips.
>> 
>> The eieio-persistent class is made for that purpose.
>> 
>> You make your data/database/whatever an object of a class you define as
>> you like, and make that class inherit from eieio-persistent.  Then your
>> data is savable out of the box.
>> 
>>   (info "(eieio) eieio-persistent")
>> 
>> Do you need an example?
>
> Thank you. If you have ready simplest example it may be useful for
> review.
>
> My strategy is to minimize number of packages used as dependencies so
> I try to use what is built in or to re-use what is inside of Emacs.

You might get inspired by an old post of mine here:
http://mbork.pl/2018-09-10_Persisting_Emacs_variables

Best,

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Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl