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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)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's guide to note-taking applications by nix
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to note-taking applications

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

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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 a
reboot?

(Myself I use unsaved buffers in XEmacs for that. Why not just open a file
in emacs or vi and don't save it? ;) )

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 in
which /tmp was not a tmpfs... :)