From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Philipp Stephani
> From: Philipp Steph= ani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 18:21:01 +0000
> Cc: 25478@debbugs.gnu.org
>
>=C2=A0 All in all, I think this option is subtly dangerous and should b= e
>=C2=A0 either deprecated or completely reimplemented to invoke
>=C2=A0 basic-save-buffer instead. I'm quite sure this option made s= ense in
>=C2=A0 the past, when complications with encoding and save-related hook= s
>=C2=A0 didn't exist, but that is no longer the case in Emacs these = days.
>=C2=A0 If someone thinks using this option will allow them not to bothe= r with
>=C2=A0 saving their edits, they are in for an unpleasant surprise.
>
> That's quite unfortunate, as not having to bother with saving edit= s manually is a very desirable feature that I
> think Emacs should offer out of the box.
>
> If you really want to deprecate auto-save-visited-file-name, how about= adding a simple global minor mode that
> invokes save-some-buffers from an idle timer to files.el?
As I wrote, I'm also okay with Someone=E2=84=A2 volunteering to reimple= ment
this option such that it invokes basic-save-buffer instead.
A minor mode that you describe would also be fine, but then it should
probably disable auto-saving if auto-save-visited-file-name is set,
right?