From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: sebyte Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: auto-saving in other directory Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 19:42:43 +0000 Organization: Customer of PlusNet Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: 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 1069962364 24612 80.91.224.253 (27 Nov 2003 19:46:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 19:46:04 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 27 20:46:00 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 1APS5Q-0001co-00 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 20:46:00 +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 1APT1f-00081Z-Ej for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 15:46:11 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!news01.chello.no!news.tdcnorge.no!landlord!wards.force9.net.POSTED!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: X-Forwarded: for smolny.plus.com via NNTP Proxy Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 212.159.3.244 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@plus.net.uk Original-X-Trace: wards.force9.net 1069962253 212.159.3.244 (Thu, 27 Nov 2003 19:44:13 GMT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 19:44:13 GMT X-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 20:42:41 MET (news01.chello.no) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:118724 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:14666 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14666 leo wrote: > hi there > > for backup files (like "filename.~1~) i can easily tell emacs to create > them in its own subdirectory via backup-directory-alist. > > regarding auto-saving files (like "#filename#") this mechanism doesn't > exist. > > anywhere any package available for that? > > thanks, leo There's already a thread here somewhere that dealt with this exact issue. I can't find it now, but the information I remember, as I did what I am about to describe only yesterday! Basically, there is no 'built-in' function or variable that will do what you want it to do. However, one Sebastian Kremer wrote a package called 'auto-save' in 1992 that does exactly what you want it to do. You can find it at; ftp://archive.cis.ohio-state.edu/pub/emacs-lisp/old-archive/auto-save.elZ It's easy to install and, as far as I can tell, works perfectly. (All those annoying #...# files in one directory). Good luck. Let us know how you get on. sebyte