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The Grumpy Editor's guide to note-taking applicationsThe Grumpy Editor's guide to note-taking applicationsPosted Feb 15, 2007 14:46 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's guide to note-taking applications by roelofs Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to note-taking applications
It seems odd to keep your notes in /tmp.
(Myself I use a directory full of tiny files, and Emacs dired. Maybe I should use remember.el instead...)
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The Grumpy Editor's guide to note-taking applications Posted Feb 15, 2007 17:16 UTC (Thu) by roelofs (guest, #2599) [Link] It seems odd to keep your notes in /tmp.Well, obviously (or not?) I don't do that on multiuser machines. But on single-user machines, I find "/tmp" is a tiny bit easier to type than "~", and like many programmers, I optimize for ease of use (i.e., I'm lazy :-) ). Greg
The Grumpy Editor's guide to note-taking applications Posted Feb 20, 2007 20:45 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] So these are very-short-term scribbles that aren't meant to survive areboot?
(Myself I use unsaved buffers in XEmacs for that. Why not just open a file
The Grumpy Editor's guide to note-taking applications Posted Feb 24, 2007 16:53 UTC (Sat) by roelofs (guest, #2599) [Link] So these are very-short-term scribbles that aren't meant to survive a reboot?No, they're both short- and long-term. The short-term ones I delete after I'm done with them; the long-term ones accumulate. /tmp doesn't get wiped on my systems; that's an optional setting, and one I don't need. Greg
The Grumpy Editor's guide to note-taking applications Posted Feb 25, 2007 22:10 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] Aha, that makes sense. I'd almost forgotten that systems could exist inwhich /tmp was not a tmpfs... :)
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