Re: a small remember suggestion

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>
Cc: org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>,
	Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: a small remember suggestion
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:22:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E23DFD69-5EDF-49D4-BF59-E3DFBAA3A0F6@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7bef1f890903240722u414bcc3fsfd09ea953e50ccc7@mail.gmail.com>

I did look at this possibility, but then found it better to tag
the backup files with dates.

- Carsten

On Mar 24, 2009, at 3:22 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote:

> Wasn't going to say anything but at risk of sticking my foot in my  
> mouth:
>
> I learned that the convention for naming backups in Emacs is they  
> end in ~.  Is it possible that if this is done, Emacs will  
> automatically use the mechanism that is available to keep a given  
> number of old versions and a given number of new versions?  For  
> example, I have this in my .emacs:
>
> (setq kept-old-versions 2)
> (setq kept-new-versions 4)
> (setq delete-old-versions t)
>
> Alan Davis
>
> "An inviscid theory of flow renders the screw useless, but the need  
> for one non-existent."                     ---Lord Raleigh (John  
> William Strutt), or else his son, who was also a scientist.
>
> It is undesirable to believe a proposition when
> there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
>     ---- Bertrand Russell
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Carsten Dominik <dominik@science.uva.nl 
> > wrote:
>
> On Mar 24, 2009, at 4:29 AM, Samuel Wales wrote:
>
> On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 08:16, Carsten Dominik  
> <dominik@science.uva.nl> wrote:
> I have now added a variable `org-remember-backup-directory'.
> Set this to a directory, and every remember buffer
> you create will end up in a separate file, with date
> and time in the file name, so that you can always recover.
>
> That is perfect.  Thank you.
>
> Note that, if you use remember frequently, you will create
> a lot of these files.  So maybe we need to think of an expiry
> mechanism?  Like, remove any files older than a few days?
>
> As one possibility, how about removing the file once the contents are
> successfully moved to their target locations?
>
> Of course!  I will do that.
>
>
>
> After that,
>
> (when (plusp number)
>  (message "you have %s saved remember files" number))
>
> Hmmm.   When should this happen?  Not after a
> successful remember process, I'd say.....
>
> - Carsten
>
>
>
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