Re: Re: is there a hook to save a remember buffer?

From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: "Alan E. Davis" <lngndvs@gmail.com>
Cc: org-mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Re: is there a hook to save a remember buffer?
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:37:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <EC79650B-4778-4BE8-B480-904F49FF038A@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7bef1f890909091317o776a1080s1cc95fe9b8fdc767@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Allen,

saving remember buffers is hackish and complex as it is, so I am not  
going to add this option.

I think the workflow has to be this:

Create a remember buffer and more-or-less immediately file it.

If you need to work on the content for a longer time, work on it at  
the target location:  Simply exit remember with C-u C-c C-c.  The  
buffer will be filed and the target location will be visited  
immediately.  So now you can work there as long as you want, and start  
another remember process when you need one.

HTH

- Carsten

On Sep 9, 2009, at 10:17 PM, Alan E. Davis wrote:

> I've looked briefly into the org-remember.el.  A hook exists:  
> remember-mode-hook.  Im not sure it can be successfully applied to  
> the case I envision.
>
> THere are tradeoffs to immediately saving a remember buffer to a  
> file, and editing a note in the remember buffer, then saving with   
> remember-finalize.  I don't remember what they are, as they led me  
> away from immediately saving quite a while ago. I was strongly  
> encouraged by the establishment of a procedure to automatically save  
> to a directory, any remember buffer that was not finallized.  I had  
> some issues with it, including how clunky it was to recover, and it  
> was broken at some point, when I was too busy to fix it.
>
> One problem with editing in the Remember buffer, then saving later,  
> is forgetting where I am.  I can rely on several remember templates,  
> and too often have lost the remember buffer's contents, when I ran  
> remember again.
>
> What I propose is the make it possible---optionally---to invoke a  
> hook to save existing remember buffers when C-c C-r (X) is used to  
> file a remember note while in the remember buffer already.
>
> I found a test "bufferp".  It does not seem to recognize the buffer  
> name "Remember", nor "*Remember*".
>
> Is it possible to do this, or is remember going to defeat this?
>
>
> Alan Davis
>
> You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world,   
> but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever  
> about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's  
> doing---that's what counts.
>
>    ----Richard Feynman
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Alan E. Davis <lngndvs@gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> Is there a hook to save the remember buffer when I type C-c C-r when  
> I'm in an unsaved remember buffer?  That would be almost as good,  
> perhaps better, than saving the remember buffer to a special file or  
> directory.
>
>
> Alan
>
> You can know the name of a bird in all the languages of the world,   
> but when you're finished, you'll know absolutely nothing whatever  
> about the bird... So let's look at the bird and see what it's  
> doing---that's what counts.
>
>    ----Richard Feynman
>
>
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