[ESS] Thoughts on auto-saving all file buffers before any eval?

[Vitalie Spinu]

Hi Grant,

You don't need to advice all ESS eval functions. Use
ess-presend-filter-functions or comint-input-filter-functions. They are
called before each evaluation.

  Vitalie

 >>> Grant Rettke on Sat, 12 Apr 2014 11:12:33 -0500 wrote:

 > Hi,

 > The ESS manual communicates the philosophy that file-artifacts are
 > the ultimate definition of the system and I agree. My first time
 > using ESS, I found that the setting 'ess-mode-silently-save' was
 > critical. Still wanting to have interactive evaluation, even used
 > primarily from persistent file buffers, I wanted the file always to
 > be in sync with what I'm doing in the system itself. With that goal
 > in mind I added some advice.

 > ; ------- SNIP --------- SNIP ---------
 >   (defun gcr/save-all-file-buffers ()
 >     "Saves every buffer associated with a file."
 >     (interactive)
 >     (dolist (buf (buffer-list))
 >       (with-current-buffer buf
 >         (when (and (buffer-file-name) (buffer-modified-p))
 >           (save-buffer)))))

 > (defadvice ess-eval-region-or-line-and-step (before
 > before-ess-eval-region-or-line-and-step activate)
 >   (gcr/save-all-file-buffers))

 > (defadvice ess-eval-region-or-function-or-paragraph (before
 > before-ess-eval-region-or-function-or-paragraph activate)
 >   (gcr/save-all-file-buffers))

 > (defadvice ess-eval-region-or-function-or-paragraph-and-step (before
 > before-ess-eval-region-or-function-or-paragraph-and-step activate)
 >   (gcr/save-all-file-buffers))

 > (defadvice ess-eval-line (before before-ess-eval-line activate)
 >   (gcr/save-all-file-buffers))

 > (defadvice ess-eval-line-and-go (before before-ess-eval-line-and-go
 > activate)
 >   (gcr/save-all-file-buffers))

 > (defadvice ess-eval-function (before before-ess-eval-function activate)
 >   (gcr/save-all-file-buffers))

 > (defadvice ess-eval-function-and-go (before before-ess-eval-function-and-go
 > activate)
 >   (gcr/save-all-file-buffers))

 > (defadvice ess-eval-region (before before-ess-eval-region activate)
 >   (gcr/save-all-file-buffers))

 > (defadvice ess-eval-region-and-go (before before-ess-eval-region-and-go
 > activate)
 >   (gcr/save-all-file-buffers))

 > (defadvice ess-eval-buffer (before before-ess-eval-buffer activate)
 >   (gcr/save-all-file-buffers))

 > (defadvice ess-eval-buffer-and-go (before before-ess-eval-buffer-and-go
 > activate)
 >   (gcr/save-all-file-buffers))
 > ; ------- SNIP --------- SNIP ---------

 > Question: is there a setting to do this already? How are other people
 > achieving the same thing?

 > Regards,

 > Grant Rettke | AAAS, ACM, AMA, COG, FSF, IEEE, Sigma Xi