pearce@tycho.yerkes.uchicago.edu (Eric C. Pearce) (05/04/89)
I gave saveconf.el a try in 18.52. It does not seem to correctly save the context of a rmail buffer (probably because of all the narrowed regions), with (save-buffer-context t). The resulting in my mailbox being muffed badly. Am I missing something, or will rmail.el and saveconf.el just not get along well. -- - Ecp Eric C. Pearce, Yerkes Observatory, University of Chicago. pearce@tycho.yerkes.uchicago.edu or pearce@oddjob.uchicago.edu
grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu (05/05/89)
Right, I have the same problems with saveconf.el; I use the following to avoid the problem: (require 'saveconf) (setq auto-save-and-recover-context t) (setq save-context-predicate (function (lambda (w) (and ; nil? (buffer-file-name (window-buffer w)) ; /usr/tmp or /tmp? (not (string-match "^\\(/usr\\)?/tmp/" (buffer-file-name (window-buffer w)))) ; rmail mode? (let ((isok t)) (save-excursion (set-buffer (window-buffer w)) (setq isok (not (or (eq major-mode 'rmail-mode) (eq major-mode 'mail-mode))))) isok)) ))) Also, attached are some patches useful when you have multiple hosts viewing the same file-system via NFS & you want to have different configurations saved for the different hosts (trust me, this is actually useful). These are w.r.t. the recently posted saveconf.el *** new-saveconf.el Wed May 3 17:42:05 1989 --- saveconf.el Wed May 3 17:49:54 1989 *************** *** 55,60 **** --- 55,71 ---- value of this variable the `recover-context' command will ignore the file's contents.") + (defvar save-context-per-host t + "Flag to determine if contexts should be defined per-host + or per-user") + + (defvar save-context-file-postfix + (if save-context-per-host + (concat ".emacs-" (system-name) "-" (user-login-name)) + (concat ".emacs-" (user-login-name))) + "*Buffer file name postfix for saveconf, providing individual configurations + in a multi-machine NSF environment") + (defvar auto-save-and-recover-context nil "*If non-nil the `save-context' command will always be run before Emacs is exited. Also upon Emacs startup, if this variable is non-nil and Emacs is *************** *** 121,127 **** (condition-case error-data (let (context-buffer mark save-file-name) (setq save-file-name (concat (original-working-directory) ! ".emacs_" (user-login-name))) (if (not (file-writable-p save-file-name)) (if (file-writable-p (original-working-directory)) (error "context is write-protected, %s" save-file-name) --- 132,138 ---- (condition-case error-data (let (context-buffer mark save-file-name) (setq save-file-name (concat (original-working-directory) ! save-context-file-postfix)) (if (not (file-writable-p save-file-name)) (if (file-writable-p (original-working-directory)) (error "context is write-protected, %s" save-file-name) *************** *** 213,219 **** ;; (let (sexpr context-buffer recover-file-name) (setq recover-file-name (concat (original-working-directory) ! ".emacs_" (user-login-name))) (if (not (file-readable-p recover-file-name)) (error "can't access context, %s" recover-file-name)) ;; --- 224,230 ---- ;; (let (sexpr context-buffer recover-file-name) (setq recover-file-name (concat (original-working-directory) ! save-context-file-postfix)) (if (not (file-readable-p recover-file-name)) (error "can't access context, %s" recover-file-name)) ;; -- Dirk Grunwald Univ. of Illinois grunwald@flute.cs.uiuc.edu
kjones@talos.UUCP (Kyle Jones) (05/08/89)
Eric C. Pearce writes: > I gave saveconf.el a try in 18.52. It does not seem to correctly save > the context of a rmail buffer (probably because of all the narrowed > regions), with (save-buffer-context t). The resulting in my mailbox > being muffed badly. > > Am I missing something, or will rmail.el and saveconf.el just not get > along well. I tried using RMAIL and saveconf and noted that the buffer and position for ~/RMAIL were restored as advertised. However the buffer was not put into RMAIL mode. When I ran M-x rmail to put the buffer in the right major mode I get Symbol's value as variable is void: rmail-inbox-list which makes me think RMAIL doesn't expect the primary mail file (rmail-file-name) to be already visited when RMAIL is run. What kind of lossage did you experience, Eric?