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gosha @gosha.net
#Clojure folks, do you also know #CommonLisp, or other lisps? What’s your journey to Clojure been like?
sachachua.com
2024-11-25 Emacs news :: Sacha Chua
hyperblog.de
IT History - Yank & Blank
Die historischen Ursprünge zweier alltäglicher Computerkonventionen: Warum der Kopierbefehl in Vim und Emacs yank heißt und warum die Leertaste in Browsern weiter blättert.
utcc.utoronto.ca
Some ways to navigate through 'git blame' over time in GNU Emacs
pdx.social
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srijan.ch
Emacs: desktop-save-mode without the automatic restore
Emacs has a built-in way to save and restore sessions: the desktop.el library. As the Emacs manual says, putting this in the init file enables automatic save and restore of sessions: (desktop-save-mode 1) But, I wanted a different behavior: * Automatically save the session * But don't restore it automatically I wanted to only use the session feature to restore sessions that I closed by mistake, or where I forgot to finish something before quitting Emacs. By default, I wanted a fresh session every time. But this also means that some session history has to be maintained; otherwise, a fresh session will start to write to the desktop file and then I will not be able to recover the old session. By default, the way to do this is to not set `desktop-save-mode`, but manually call `desktop-save` when needed, and then call `desktop-read` when needed. But, if I forget to save, I cannot restore. This elisp is what I came up with to make it work the way I want: (defvar my/desktop-snapshot-keep 5 "How many previous sessions to keep desktop snapshots for.") (defun my/desktop--snapshots () (nreverse (directory-files desktop-dirname t (concat "\\`" (regexp-quote desktop-base-file-name) "\\.[0-9]\\{8\\}T[0-9]\\{6\\}\\'")))) (defun my/desktop--take-snapshot () (let ((live (desktop-full-file-name))) (when (file-exists-p live) (let ((dest (concat live (format-time-string ".%Y%m%dT%H%M%S" (file-attribute-modification-time (file-attributes live)))))) (unless (file-exists-p dest) (copy-file live dest t t))))) (dolist (old (nthcdr my/desktop-snapshot-keep (my/desktop--snapshots))) (delete-file old))) (defun my/desktop--label (file) (format "%s %d buffers" (format-time-string "%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S" (file-attribute-modification-time (file-attributes file))) (with-temp-buffer (insert-file-contents file) (how-many "^(desktop-\\(?:create-buffer\\|append-buffer-args\\) " (point-min) (point-max))))) (add-hook 'emacs-startup-hook (lambda () (require 'desktop) (setq desktop-dirname (expand-file-name user-emacs-directory)) (my/desktop--take-snapshot) (desktop--get-file-modtime) (let ((owner (desktop-owner))) (unless (and owner (desktop--emacs-pid-running-p owner)) (desktop-claim-lock))) (desktop-save-mode 1))) (defun my/desktop-restore (file) "Restore the desktop snapshot FILE, prompting for one interactively." (interactive (progn (require 'desktop) (let* ((snapshots (or (my/desktop--snapshots) (user-error "No desktop snapshots in %s" desktop-dirname))) (choices (mapcar (lambda (f) (cons (my/desktop--label f) f)) snapshots))) (list (cdr (assoc (completing-read "Restore desktop session: " choices nil t) choices)))))) (desktop-release-lock) (let ((desktop-base-file-name (file-name-nondirectory file))) (desktop-read (file-name-directory file))) (desktop--get-file-modtime)) Note that `desktop-save-mode` must not be enabled before `after-init-hook` fires, because that's where desktop.el decides to automatically restore. So, I enable it in `emacs-startup-hook`, which runs later. Other things inside my `emacs-startup-hook` lambda are workarounds for how desktop.el works, so they can be fragile if there are major changes to it. The lock check avoids a stale lock from a crashed Emacs silently disabling auto-save, and naming snapshots after the desktop file's mtime means restarting without saving anything doesn't use up one of the five slots. Here's what it looks like when I call `my/desktop-restore`: Of course, this can be made better by showing more information per session (like number of projects, names of last edited files or last visited buffers). Vertico/marginalia can show it nicely. Also maybe a section in emacs-dashboard to show recent sessions and click/enter to restore. Something for another day.
hachyderm.io
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