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Re: How to save custom variable programmatically?
From: |
Marcin Borkowski |
Subject: |
Re: How to save custom variable programmatically? |
Date: |
Wed, 11 Nov 2020 22:20:48 +0100 |
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mu4e 1.1.0; emacs 27.0.50 |
On 2020-11-10, at 22:46, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
> * Marcin Borkowski <mbork@mbork.pl> [2020-11-10 23:42]:
>>
>> On 2020-11-10, at 20:19, Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> wrote:
>>
>> > * Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> [2020-11-10 17:36]:
>> >> Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:
>> >>
>> >> > If there is anyway of storing data from Emacs that is standard I do
>> >> > not know about it. Welcoming tips.
>> >>
>> >> The eieio-persistent class is made for that purpose.
>> >>
>> >> You make your data/database/whatever an object of a class you define as
>> >> you like, and make that class inherit from eieio-persistent. Then your
>> >> data is savable out of the box.
>> >>
>> >> (info "(eieio) eieio-persistent")
>> >>
>> >> Do you need an example?
>> >
>> > Thank you. If you have ready simplest example it may be useful for
>> > review.
>> >
>> > My strategy is to minimize number of packages used as dependencies so
>> > I try to use what is built in or to re-use what is inside of Emacs.
>>
>> You might get inspired by an old post of mine here:
>> http://mbork.pl/2018-09-10_Persisting_Emacs_variables
>
> Nice post and Wiki. Reference taken. I can read the flow somehow. You
> watching in the file by trying to read ^(setq if variable exists, if I
> get it well. It relies on personal use case and common usage of
> setq. What if variable is b that is set with:
>
> (set (quote b) 1)
>
> or
>
> (setq a 1 b 2)
>
> or
>
> (setq a 1
> b 2
> c 3)
>
> or
>
> (setf b 1)
Well, it won't work;-). The idea is, though, that this line is put in
init.el automatically and not tampered manually.
Best,
--
Marcin Borkowski
http://mbork.pl
- How to save custom variable programmatically?, Jean Louis, 2020/11/10
- Re: How to save custom variable programmatically?, Robert Pluim, 2020/11/10
- Re: How to save custom variable programmatically?, Michael Heerdegen, 2020/11/10
- Re: How to save custom variable programmatically?, Michael Heerdegen, 2020/11/10
- Re: How to save custom variable programmatically?, Jean Louis, 2020/11/10
- Re: How to save custom variable programmatically?, Michael Heerdegen, 2020/11/11
- Re: How to save custom variable programmatically?, Jean Louis, 2020/11/11
- Re: How to save custom variable programmatically?, Michael Heerdegen, 2020/11/17
- Re: How to save custom variable programmatically?, Jean Louis, 2020/11/17
- Re: How to save custom variable programmatically?, Michael Heerdegen, 2020/11/10
- Re: How to save custom variable programmatically?, Jean Louis, 2020/11/10
- Re: How to save custom variable programmatically?, Michael Heerdegen, 2020/11/11
- Re: How to save custom variable programmatically?, Jean Louis, 2020/11/17