From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Backing up buffers Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:57:41 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1169229215.741201.20960@11g2000cwr.googlegroups.com> <1169244180.784240.168240@s34g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <45B15876.4040207@gatech.edu> <1169396340.051009.161280@l53g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169413083 25535 80.91.229.12 (21 Jan 2007 20:58:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 20:58:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 21 21:58:01 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H8jlF-0000dj-NS for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 21:57:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H8jlF-0008WL-9c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:57:57 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H8jl2-0008U1-DZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:57:44 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H8jl0-0008Rx-Ov for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:57:43 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H8jl0-0008Rr-L9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:57:42 -0500 Original-Received: from [213.8.233.24] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1H8jl0-0006to-6l for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:57:42 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-163-125.inter.net.il [84.228.163.125]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id GXN31832 (AUTH halo1); Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:57:44 +0200 (IST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-reply-to: <1169396340.051009.161280@l53g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> (rbielaws@i1.net) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:40493 Archived-At: > From: "rgb" > Date: 21 Jan 2007 08:19:00 -0800 > > are you saying that autosave can already be configured > to save the contents of buffers that don't have files > associated with them? All you need is to turn on auto-save; it is off by default in such buffers. You could arrange for the appropriate mode hook to do that. You can find an example in mail-mode, which arranges for the *mail* buffers, where you compose outgoing messages, to be auto-saved.