remember buffer gets lost too easy

remember buffer gets lost too easy

[Rainer Stengele]

Is it possible to tie the remember buffer to a default file name or to 
yank it automatically before closing it?

Why? Whatever the reasons were I was able several times to kill or close 
the buffer after writing a lot of stuff inside - having it open - 
clocked in - for some time - only to find the contents nowhere in any 
org file afterwards...

I know that this should never happen - but anyway - if the contents 
would be saved somehow automatically I would always be able to recreate 
the last entry later on.

rainer

Re: remember buffer gets lost too easy

[Carsten Dominik]

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On Jan 22, 2008, at 9:49 PM, Rainer Stengele wrote:

> Is it possible to tie the remember buffer to a default file name or  
> to yank it automatically before closing it?

What do you mean by "yank it"?
How are you loosing the buffer?  By just killing it?

Anyway, this might do it, put this into .emacs *after* the remaining
remember setup.

(defadvice remember-finalize (before org-save-and-detach activate)
   (when buffer-file-name
     (save-buffer)
     (setq buffer-file-name nil)))

(add-hook 'remember-mode-hook
    (lambda ()
      (org-set-local 'change-major-mode-with-file-name nil)
      (write-file "~/path/to/remember_backup.org")
      (org-set-local 'remember-buffer (buffer-name)))
    'append)

I don't think I will add this to org.el because it seems to me
that you are, in some sense, using remember out of its realm by making
is a work buffer instead of a quick capture-or-note buffer.  An
alternative work flow would be to use remember to set up an entry,  
file it,
go to the location and then work with the entry in place.

Anyway, the above code should do the trick.

Hope this helps.

- Carsten

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