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: auto-save sometimes Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:23:01 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <400D63F5.5030301@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 1074620414 21394 80.91.224.253 (20 Jan 2004 17:40:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 17:40:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 20 18:40:11 2004 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 1AizrH-000475-00 for ; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 18:40:11 +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 1AizjU-0004GJ-Sv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 12:32:08 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!170.207.51.80!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 170.207.51.80 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1074619383 19517761 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:120269 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:16210 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:16210 David Vanderschel wrote: > "Jeffery B. Rancier" wrote in message > news:mailman.938.1074548626.928.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org... > >>Periodically, I get the message: >> >>,---- >>| Auto-save off (in this buffer) >>`---- >> >>In the mode-line. It doesn't seem to be based on the file type. What >>determines this? >> > > From the "Auto-Save Files" node in emacs info: > > When you delete a substantial part of the text in > a large buffer, auto save turns off temporarily in > that buffer. This is because if you deleted the > text unintentionally, you might find the auto-save > file more useful if it contains the deleted text. > To reenable auto-saving after this happens, save > the buffer with `C-x C-s', or use `C-u 1 M-x > auto-save'. How is that implemented? The message reported by Jeffery only occurs in lisp/files.el, and is only shown if auto-save-mode is called interactively. -- Kevin Rodgers