Re: emacsclient: controlling from an application?

[Kevin Rodgers]

DrMemory wrote:

> I would like to have a cron task signal emacsclient to save a certain
> buffer which I keep open throughout the workday, so that a perl script
> can do some processing on the contents at the end of the day.
> Signalling to save _all_ buffers would be okay too.
>
> I know I can set the auto-save-visited-file-name variable so that
> auto-saves write to the original file; but unless I could do this on a
> per-buffer basis I surely wouldn't want this as global behaviour.

You can set any variable on a per-buffer basis:


(set (make-local-variable 'auto-save-visited-file-name) t)


Try putting that in the file itself, either as the first line

# -*- eval: (set ...) -*-

or at the end

### Local Variables:
### eval: (set ...)
### End:

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Kevin Rodgers