From: Mark P <not@my.real.email>
Subject: simple question - temporarily disable autosave?
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2005 16:56:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ct45ff01tct@enews3.newsguy.com> (raw)
My emacs client normally auto-saves on a regular basis. Here are the
relevant bits from my .emacs that I'm sure I got from somewhere else:
;; auto-save stuff
(setq auto-save-interval 100)
(setq auto-save-timeout nil)
(setq auto-save-list-file-prefix ".saves/")
;; backup version stuff
(setq version-control t)
(setq kept-old-versions 3)
(setq kept-new-versions 5)
(setq delete-old-versions t)
The problem is when I'm in a read-only directory looking at a file and
emacs flashes repeated warning that it's unable to auto-save. I assume
I can M-x auto-save-mode to turn this off as needed, but is there any
way to make it automatically do this when I don't have write permission?
Better still, if I don't have write permission I'm not going to be
modifying the file; maybe it can wait till I've made a change to the
file before trying to auto-save?
Thanks for your help!
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