From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: how to force auto-save of buffers not visiting files, right now? Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 05:13:48 +0100 Message-ID: <87bky0oscj.fsf@zoho.eu> References: <87wngsmdwp.fsf@web.de> <9f32ac59eb1bc186b015c0b6c5b94822e70d4135.camel@adminart.net> <87y2164u5p.fsf@web.de> <9c3935a33573d50e595f37103434db5e29c21063.camel@adminart.net> <87ilsa61tn.fsf@web.de> <37e890d9c251b30d0caf83aa590bca1ad92ec5d4.camel@adminart.net> <87wngqclgk.fsf@gmx.de> <95f0e96687187c20086bf9f85a031a7271401407.camel@adminart.net> <4486cbd26d1c5c4587507212bfbb7ca34c5d92ea.camel@adminart.net> <2555abdd3813f67d08230e809526bc4c6f45087b.camel@adminart.net> Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="21038"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:GXNJ+mKaMWVJQ3boZPqOeDtPLZ0= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 21 17:11:05 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nWKca-0005C9-Pc for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2022 17:11:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47076 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nWKcX-0008Pt-IV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2022 12:11:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:53480) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nW9Qc-0000AI-J5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:13:58 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:33514) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1nW9Qa-0008Ke-QE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2022 00:13:58 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1nW9QZ-0006TA-5t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2022 05:13:55 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 12:05:38 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:136710 Archived-At: hw wrote: >> > > > (("\\`/[^/]*:\\([^/]*/\\)*\\([^/]*\\)\\'" "/tmp/\\2" t)) >> >> [...] >> >> > Yes --- I didn't see that because that expression is so unreadable. >> >> To some it is readable, to some not. It takes some practice. > > I'm sure there are 5 people for whom it's easily readable. For others, > it would be helpful if the description would explain what the default > is supposed to match and if it would have same useful examples. If you don't know it, easier examples first, yet. But there is no need for explanations as you call, rather a syntax list what it means. You don't need more than that, just look up everything you don't understand until you don't have to because your brain has it memorized. -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal