Autosaving shrunk buffers

Autosaving shrunk buffers

[Yevgeniy Makarov]

Hello,

This topic has been raised in this group before--in 1991 and
2002--however, no answer was given.

How do I convince Emacs not to turn off auto-saving when a buffer has
shrunk a lot?

Thank you,
Yevgeniy

Re: Autosaving shrunk buffers

[Kevin Rodgers]

Yevgeniy Makarov wrote:
> This topic has been raised in this group before--in 1991 and
> 2002--however, no answer was given.
> 
> How do I convince Emacs not to turn off auto-saving when a buffer has
> shrunk a lot?

*** fileio.c.orig	2006-12-04 08:16:47 -0000
--- fileio.c	2006-12-11 14:11:13 -0700
***************
*** 5975,5980 ****
--- 5975,5981 ----
   		&& EMACS_SECS (before_time) - b->auto_save_failure_time < 1200)
   	      continue;

+ #if 0
   	    if ((XFASTINT (b->save_length) * 10
   		 > (BUF_Z (b) - BUF_BEG (b)) * 13)
   		/* A short file is likely to change a large fraction;
***************
*** 5995,6000 ****
--- 5996,6002 ----
   		Fsleep_for (make_number (1), Qnil);
   		continue;
   	      }
+ #endif
   	    set_buffer_internal (b);
   	    if (!auto_saved && NILP (no_message))
   	      message1 ("Auto-saving...");


-- 
Kevin