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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: --purgebufffers option?
Date: Thu, 04 Jul 2013 22:06:06 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51D5D5AE.8030602@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1307041515130.10806@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>

On 7/4/2013 9:19 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Jul 2013, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:
>
>> Dear Hans,
>>
>> I compile ConTeXt documents with --purgeall, but if I save buffers into
>> files and typeset those files or I typeset buffers directly, these files
>> aren’t purged after successful compilation.
>
> --purgeall deletes all `*-temp-*.tmp` files from a directory. So, one
> option (that I use in the filter module) is to use that structure while
> naming your temporary files.
>
>> Would it be possible to enable an option (such as --purgebuffers) that
>> removes all buffer files generated by that compilation?
>
> IIRC, in t-gnuplot, Mojca had used a macro to store the name of all the
> generated buffers and some test code (or maybe just the idea) to store
> them the tuc file so that they get deleted by context/texexec.

\ctxlua{luatex.registertempfile("yourfile.xxx")}

\edef\MyTempFile{\cldcontext{luatex.registertempfile("yourfile",true)}}

registered files will be deleted at the end of a job

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      reply	other threads:[~2013-07-04 20:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-04 16:44 Pablo Rodríguez
2013-07-04 19:19 ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-07-04 20:06   ` Hans Hagen [this message]

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