[ANN] alphapapa/salv.el: Local minor mode to save a buffer when Emacs is idle

Nice! Can you make is so it will not save a empty buffer

We could, but why?

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Dude, I'm impressed how much you've been releasing lately, are you ok?

interesting. I think I'm gonna stick to super-save-mode, or maybe audit this code and if it's more lightweight just enable it everywhere, lol. oh does this do scratch buffers? or I guess.... would it?

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I make lots of buffers accidentally that I discard

seems like a serious case is prolifiritis :)

So don't enable `salv-mode` in those buffers.

It's funny that you would say that, because I haven't been doing that much Elisp coding lately. This, for example, is only a few lines of code. Just because I "release" something doesn't mean I just wrote it. For example, the recent "release" of Burly 0.2 is mostly comprised of code that's been sitting on the master branch for a while now. After it's been used for a while and seems stable, I may tag it as a release so I can work on new features for a new release. But thanks for the kind words...I think... :)

`super-save` is a fine package if you want a global minor mode. I prefer to only enable `salv-mode` for the certain buffers I want to be automatically saved. `salv-mode` will only call `save-buffer` in the buffers in which you activate it. The scratch buffer is not file-backed, anyway.

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See also: The built in `auto-save-visited-mode` You can enable this with `(auto-save-visited-mode 1)`, and once enabled set the buffer-local value of `auto-save-visited-mode` if you don't want it to apply globally. So the example in the README would look something like this in vanilla Emacs: (auto-save-visited-mode 1) (setq-default auto-save-visited-mode nil) (add-hook 'org-mode-hook (lambda () (when (file-in-directory-p (buffer-file-name) "~/org") (setq-local auto-save-visited-mode t))))

I have a feeling someone just made it global in their init...

For some reason (even after almost 8 years, I'm still just beginner with emacs) `super-save` wasn't running when I would modify my tasks in my Org Agenda - the "remote editing" of my gtd.org file. This lead to annoying situations where Beorg on my phone would say I didn't actually complete tasks, and then my desktop later saying I didn't complete them after Beorg synced and auto-reverted :-( I replaced it with `salv-mode` with your hook ```elisp (add-hook 'org-mode-hook (lambda () (when (file-in-directory-p (buffer-file-name) "~/org") (salv-mode)))) ``` and changes inside the agenda view are correctly saved within seconds. Great job and thanks for the really useful and simple tool!

Well, there's `auto-save-visited-mode` for that, but to each his own. :)

Ah, that's interesting. I discovered `first-change-hook` when I was putting `salv-mode` together, which seems to work well. I haven''t looked at `super-save`'s code, but I guess whatever method it uses doesn't detect remote changes, or something like that. Glad that this is helpful to you. :)

what are the pros/cons of using `salv` over `auto-save-visited-mode`?

Thanks for your work!

Thanks for the kind words. :)