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;;; ravi-init-files.el --- file-handling

;; Copyright (C) 2013  

;; Author:  <ravi@nero.lan>
;; Keywords:

;; This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
;; it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
;; the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
;; (at your option) any later version.

;; This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
;; but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
;; MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
;; GNU General Public License for more details.

;; You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
;; along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

;;; Commentary:

;; File handling

;;; Code:

(setq delete-auto-save-files t)
(setq dired-listing-switches "-Flag")
(setq completion-ignored-extensions
      (append completion-ignored-extensions
	      (quote (".bak" ".#*#" ".ps" ".pdf"))))

;; Auto refresh buffers
(global-auto-revert-mode 1)

;; Also auto refresh dired, but be quiet about it
(setq global-auto-revert-non-file-buffers t)
(setq auto-revert-verbose nil)

;; Transparently open compressed files
(auto-compression-mode t)

;; UTF-8 please
(setq locale-coding-system 'utf-8) ; pretty
(set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8) ; pretty
(set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8) ; pretty
(set-selection-coding-system 'utf-8) ; please
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8) ; with sugar on top

(setq history-length 100)
(setq savehist-file (ravi/emacs-file "past/history"))
(savehist-mode 1)
(setq history-delete-duplicates t)

(require 'saveplace)
(setq-default save-place t)
(setq save-place-file (ravi/emacs-file "past/places"))

(require 'recentf)
(setq recentf-save-file (ravi/emacs-file "past/recentf"))
(recentf-mode 1)
(setq recentf-max-saved-items 100) ;; just 20 is too recent

(require 'uniquify)
(setq uniquify-buffer-name-style 'post-forward)
(setq uniquify-after-kill-buffer-p t) ; rename after killing uniquified
(setq uniquify-ignore-buffers-re "^\\*") ; don't muck with special buffers

(setq minibuffer-completion-confirm t)
(setq find-file-confirm-nonexistent-file t)
(setq find-file-visit-truename t)

;; Automatic loading of file trees
(defun ravi-check-dir-accessible-p (name)
  "Check whether NAME is accessible as a directory"
  (let* ((topname (file-name-as-directory name))
	 (name-exists (and (file-exists-p topname)
			   (file-directory-p topname)
			   (file-accessible-directory-p topname)
			   topname)))
         name-exists
	 ))

(defun ravi-filecache-add-tree (root recursive simple)
  "Add list of directories to filecache for easy opening.
ROOT is the root of the tree to be added. RECURSIVE is a list of
relative paths whose subdirectories are added recursively, while
relative paths in SIMPLE are added non-recursively. If a path does
not exist, it is not added to the filecache."

  (let ((topname (ravi-check-dir-accessible-p root))
	(dirval nil))
    (when topname
      (dolist (dir recursive)
	(setq dirval (ravi-check-dir-accessible-p
		      (expand-file-name dir topname)))
	(and dirval
	     (file-cache-add-directory-recursively dirval)))
      (dolist (dir simple)
	(setq dirval (ravi-check-dir-accessible-p
		      (expand-file-name dir topname)))
	(and dirval
	     (file-cache-add-directory dirval)))
      )))

;; Write backup files to own directory
(make-directory (ravi/emacs-file "past/backups/") t)
(setq backup-by-copying t)
(setq backup-directory-alist
      `(("." . ,(ravi/emacs-file "past/backups/"))
        (,tramp-file-name-regexp nil)))

;; Make backups of files, even when they're in version control
(setq vc-make-backup-files t)

(provide 'ravi-init-files)
;;; ravi-init-files.el ends here