From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: nicolas.pouillard@gmail.com (Nicolas Pouillard)
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:40:52 +0100
Subject: [sup-talk] Can sup only "save threads" on exit??
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Excerpts from Steve Goldman's message of Wed Nov 05 15:34:42 +0100 2008:
> Excerpts from John Bent's message of Tue Nov 04 19:36:00 -0500 2008:
> > Excerpts from Steve Goldman's message of Tue Nov 04 15:55:57 -0700 2008:
> > > 
> > > When I quit, sup goes through a slow process where it "saves" all the
> > > modified threads.  This is problematic because 1) it takes a long
> > > time, and 2) if sup crashes before I get a chance to exit, then I have
> > > to rearchive everything again.
> > > 
> > Do a 'H' and look at the help.  '$' does save now.
> > 
> > John
> 
> Great.  Is there a setting to make sup do this automatically every
> once in a while?  It would be nice to be able to leave sup open all
> day, or many days, and not have to worry about remembering to hit '$'
> or a crash.

I have this in my ~/.sup/hooks/before-poll.rb:
  say "Saving threads"
  InboxMode.instance.save

However saving from time to time would be nice also.
Moreover saving the contacts.txt file on '$' would be also nice.

-- 
Nicolas Pouillard aka Ertai