From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: make-auto-save-file-name: not using name transforms for mere buffers Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 10:10:34 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3FD7538A.9000406@yahoo.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1071076711 12843 80.91.224.253 (10 Dec 2003 17:18:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:18:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 10 18:18:26 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AU7yk-0003dl-00 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 18:18:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AU8vc-00027B-AX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 13:19:16 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1071076225 298537 170.207.51.80 ([82742]) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119187 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:15125 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:15125 Florian von Savigny wrote: > I also like the auto-save feature and have also switched it on for > buffers not visiting files. However, whenever I am writing a mail, > emacs tries to save it into an auto-save file with asterisks in its > name, which doesn't work since this is a forbidden character on VFAT. > > I have tried customising auto-save-file-name-transforms, but this does > not work, apparently because make-auto-save-file-name only uses it if > the buffer is visiting a file (does anybody know why on earth?). > > Is there any standard way to make make-auto-save-file-name use it also > for buffer names, or do I simply have to hack the function? Why not just redefine make-auto-save-file-name (and auto-save-file-name-p)? -- Kevin Rodgers