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Re: desktop mode, periodic save
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Xah |
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Re: desktop mode, periodic save |
Date: |
Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:01:27 -0800 (PST) |
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G2/1.0 |
how can i write a elisp code so that a function is called every 10
minutes.
I found “sleep-for” but it freezes emacs for the period.
Thanks.
Xah
xah@xahlee.org
∑ http://xahlee.org/
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On Feb 10, 12:54 pm, Xah <xah...@gmail.com> wrote:
> i'm usingdesktop.el, with the intention so that in case of crashing
> (emacs or OS), i can still have emacs open files i have left open when
> crashed.
>
> However,desktopmode by default doesn't save periodically, so that
> after a crash, i lost the info of opened files. (i think this defeats
> the main purpose ofdesktopmode)
>
> So i added adesktop-save to find-file-hook. Like this:
>
> (desktop-save-mode 1)
> (add-hook 'find-file-hook (lambda () (desktop-save "~/")))
>
> But the problem with this is that, when i launch emacs (no crash
> involved), it will ask me to override thedesktopfile each time it
> opens a file (due to previousdesktopsave)
>
> I think the solution is to add the hook only when the initialization
> is complete. How can i do that?
>
> Xah
> x...@xahlee.org
> ∑http://xahlee.org/
>
> ☄