[ESS] Thoughts on auto-saving all file buffers before any eval?
Grant Rettke
gcr at wisdomandwonder.com
Sat Apr 26 17:10:30 CEST 2014
Dumb question: when I grep for that hook in the release off MELPA, it
doesn't show up.
Is that hook released yet?
Grant Rettke | AAAS, ACM, ASA, FSF, IEEE, SIAM, Sigma Xi
grettke at acm.org | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/
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On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 8:34 PM, Grant Rettke <gcr at wisdomandwonder.com> wrote:
> Vialie,
>
> Understood. Thank you.
>
> I'll watch for that to filter into the MELPA release.
>
> Grant Rettke | AAAS, ACM, AMA, COG, FSF, IEEE, Sigma Xi
> grettke at acm.org | http://www.wisdomandwonder.com/
> “Wisdom begins in wonder.” --Socrates
> ((λ (x) (x x)) (λ (x) (x x)))
> “Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking
> it seriously.” --Thompson
>
>
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2014 at 11:28 AM, Vitalie Spinu <spinuvit at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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
>
>
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