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@ 2009-03-21 19:28 Samuel Wales
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From: Samuel Wales @ 2009-03-21 19:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-orgmode

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.

With org-remember, the buffer has unsaved text, but it is
not associated with a file, so it loses text.

Text is probably lost upon a crash also.

My suggestion is this.  Perhaps org-remember can have a file
(this fixes the killing problem), and that file can be
autosaved (this fixes the crash problem).[fn:4]

There is one more case in which text is lost.  You might run
org-remember from org-remember and not undo.  My existing
proposal is to allow calling o-r from o-r.  I think that
solves it.  In such a case, however, it will be necessary
to allow more than one such file.

[fn:4] In principle, if the target location is known, the
file can be an indirect buffer into that buffer.  This has
other advantages, including having all in-buffer settings
work, being able to isearch, having a crashed org-remember
stay where it is supposed to be (albeit unfinished) and so
on.  But it wouldn't be necessary to get that fancy.  Just
any file would work.

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2009-03-21 19:28 a small remember suggestion Samuel Wales
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2009-03-22  2:01   ` Alan E. Davis
2009-03-22 15:16     ` Carsten Dominik
2009-03-22 17:03       ` Richard Riley
2009-03-22 20:36       ` Alan E. Davis
2009-03-24  3:29       ` Samuel Wales
2009-03-24  3:42         ` Samuel Wales
2009-03-24 11:29           ` Carsten Dominik
2009-03-24 11:29         ` Carsten Dominik
2009-03-24 14:22           ` Alan E. Davis
2009-03-25  8:22             ` Carsten Dominik
2009-03-25  4:46           ` Samuel Wales
2009-03-25  6:24             ` Alan E. Davis
2009-03-25  8:23               ` Carsten Dominik

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