bug#13720: 24.3.50; auto-save-timeout less than 4 causes constant saving

bug#13720: 24.3.50; auto-save-timeout less than 4 causes constant saving

[Brian Langenberger]

Setting the auto-save-timeout variable to a value less than 4
causes Emacs to perform auto saves instantly rather than
waiting 1, 2 or 3 seconds.



In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.2)
 of 2013-02-14 on net
Bzr revision: 111784 jan.h.d@swipnet.se-20130214190112-35htkvic2zp1bwr2
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11300000
System Description:	Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS

Configured using:
 `configure --prefix=/opt/emacs-bzr --without-makeinfo'

Important settings:
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Text

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent input:
<help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <help-echo> 
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<tool-bar> <new-file> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> M-x 
c u s t o m i - <tab> <backspace> <tab> - v a <tab> 
<return> a u t o - s a v e - t i m e o u t <return> 
<down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <backspace> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> 
<mouse-1> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <tool-bar> < Apply > <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <menu-bar> <file> <open-file> <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> 
<menu-bar> <file> <new-file> a a a a a a a <backspace> 
<backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> 
<backspace> d s a d s a d a s d a s a c z c x z c d 
z <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <left> <right> 
<right> <right> <right> <right> <right> a a a a a <help-echo> 
<help-echo> <help-echo> <help-echo> <down-mouse-1> 
<mouse-1> M-x <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> <down-mouse-1> 
<mouse-1> <M-down> <down-mouse-1> <mouse-1> r e p o 
r t - r e m <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> e m 
a c s - b u g <return>

Recent messages:
Auto-saving...done
Auto-saving...done
Auto-saving...done
Auto-saving...done
Auto-saving...done
Auto-saving...done
Auto-saving...done
Auto-saving...done
Auto-saving...done
Auto-saving...done

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
(shadow sort gnus-util mail-extr emacsbug message format-spec rfc822 mml
mml-sec mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev
gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045 ietf-drums mm-util
mail-prsvr mail-utils cus-theme eieio-custom eieio byte-opt bytecomp
byte-compile cconv wid-browse tree-widget help-fns cus-edit easymenu
cus-start cus-load wid-edit time-date tooltip ediff-hook vc-hooks
lisp-float-type mwheel x-win x-dnd tool-bar dnd fontset image regexp-opt
fringe tabulated-list newcomment lisp-mode register page menu-bar
rfn-eshadow timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax
facemenu font-core frame cham georgian utf-8-lang misc-lang vietnamese
tibetan thai tai-viet lao korean japanese hebrew greek romanian slovak
czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic chinese case-table epa-hook
jka-cmpr-hook help simple abbrev minibuffer loaddefs button faces
cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5 base64 format
env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable backquote
make-network-process inotify dynamic-setting system-font-setting
font-render-setting move-toolbar gtk x-toolkit x multi-tty emacs)

bug#13720: 24.3.50; auto-save-timeout less than 4 causes constant saving

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Brian Langenberger <bjl@usa.net>
> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 08:18:36 -0600
> 
> Setting the auto-save-timeout variable to a value less than 4
> causes Emacs to perform auto saves instantly rather than
> waiting 1, 2 or 3 seconds.

Fixed in trunk revision 11790.

Thanks.

bug#13720: 24.3.50; auto-save-timeout less than 4 causes constant saving

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:53:35 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: 13720-done@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Fixed in trunk revision 11790.

That should have been 111790, of course.