Re: Saving the Messages buffer

[Emanuel Berg]

Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> writes:

>> (let ((buffer "*Messages*")) (with-current-buffer
>> buffer (set-visited-file-name buffer t)
>> (auto-save-mode) ))
>
> The first arg to set-visited-file-name is FILENAME,
> not BUFFER.

Yes, but in that piece of code, "buffer" is not a
buffer, but a *string*, which works both to identify
the buffer (in `with-current-buffer') *and* to specify
a path (in `set-visited-file-name').

If you go to the *Messages* buffer, you will see that
its default-directory is the user home path (if that's
form where Emacs is started), so there is where the
file should go.

The reason the filename is the same as the buffer is
that

> Change name of file visited in current buffer to
> FILENAME.  This also renames the buffer to correspond
> to the new file.

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