File Properties
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Description
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Known Problems
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Description
Store file local variables without changing the file's contents. Add the
variable's symbol to `file-properties-list', and the variable will be
automatically saved and restored. Candidates would be:
- `buffer-undo-list' (got the idea from Ivar Rummelhoff's
continuous-undo.el)
- `register-alist'
In addition, overlays can be stored too (see `file-properties-overlays').
By default, the file-properties of file /there/here/this.txt will be
stored in /there/here/.props/this.txt (see `file-properties-subdir').
This variable can be tweaked, so that properties for files in
unwriteable directories are stored in ~/.props/filename. This means
you can store file local variables for files for which you don't have
writing permisson. A third stratey is to mark files with unique IDs --
see `file-properties-define-unique-id'.
Installation: Put (require 'file-properties) (file-properties-install)
into your startup/user init file.
Commands
- `file-properties-add', `file-properties-remove'
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Add and remove a
variable to or from the file's property list.
- `file-properties-overlay-add', `file-properties-overlay-remove'
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Add
and remove overlays containing a specific symbol.
- `file-properties-add-special', `file-properties-remove-special'
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Add
or remove a mode setting function or a hook function.
- `file-properties-write'
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Write the property file.
- `file-properties-install', `file-properties-deinstall'
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Add and remove
file-properties.el specific hooks.
- `file-properties-define-unique-id'
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Insert a unique ID for the current
buffer. From then on, this ID will be used for storing file properties
under `file-properties-uniquedir'.
Variables
- `file-properties-list'
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A list of file-properties that should be
stored in the property file.
- `file-properties-overlays'
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A list of symbols or plists identifying
overlays that should be stored.
- `file-properties-overlay-ignored-properties'
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Ignore these properties
when dumping overlays.
- `file-properties-categories'
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Definition of "special" properties.
- `file-properties-file'
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A buffer local variable defining the properties
file -- relative to the current buffer's/file's location. Use this to
force the use of a non-standard properties file.
Known Problems
- File-Properties sometimes loses information -- e.g. when reading the
properties file failes or when a file was moved or renamed. Don't move
your files! If you have to, don't forget to move the properties file too
and make backups of the auxillary files before opening one of the files
-- just to be sure.
Download
Requirements: tellib
v1.3:
file-properties.el.gz
Version history
- Renamed "properties" to "file-properties"; directory properties;
`file-properties-dirty-flag'; catch errors, when `file-properties-read'
fails; `file-properties-get-file-desc',
`file-properties-verify-file-desc'; `file-properties-do-nothing';
`file-properties-define-unique-id'.
- Save some modes and hooks too -- see `file-properties-add-special'.
- Save and restore some overlays; better control over where to save
properties files (see `file-properties-location')
- Initial release