Re: bugs in org-remember-backup-directory

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bugs in org-remember-backup-directory
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:30:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <A6AA6CB4-7E5E-48CB-98CF-D59C5DB32638@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20524da70904251508w523010efj6a07e25f1cbb03fa@mail.gmail.com>

On Apr 26, 2009, at 12:08 AM, Samuel Wales wrote:

> I noticed the following regarding
> org-remember-backup-directory:
>
>  1) auto-saving does not save contents
>     - solution: put (auto-save-mode 1) before or after (not
>       sure which) the call to org-set-local in the
>       following lines in org-remember:
>
>        # 	  (expand-file-name
>        # 	   (format-time-string "remember-%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S")
>        # 	   org-remember-backup-directory))
>        #     (save-buffer)
>        #     (org-set-local 'auto-save-visited-file-name t))
>        #   (when (save-excursion

Done.

>
>  2) save-buffer is called before there are any contents
>     - this causes files without useful content to stick
>       around in the dir if the buffer is killed or
>       something.
>     - solution: don't save the buffer; let auto-saving do
>       that work.  will this work?

Usually, the template expansion will have filled in stuff like
links and initial contents, so I would prefer to keep the
save-buffer here and let the user deal with the extra files.

>  3) if you have auto-save-file-name-transforms set,
>     auto-saving is done according to that variable instead
>     of saving in place.

I am now turning that variable off, locally in the remember buffer.
Does that fix the problem?

- Carsten

>     - solution: is this an emacs bug?  i am not sure.  the
>       auto-saving should be done in place, saving in
>       org-remember-backup-directory and not saving in the
>       place where the transforms variable tells it to save.
>       perhaps each user can kludge transforms or perhaps
>       emacs needs fixing?  i have reached debugging ability
>       limit.
>
> Thanks.
>
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