I have discovered that the slow save problem I described was due to AucTeX reparsing my<div>files every time I saved them.  For a long document, this took a lot of time.  When I turn</div><div>off the TeX-auto-save flag in AucTeX, saves are immediate again.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Sorry for the misanalyzed complaint.</div><div><br></div><div>Jon Doyle</div>