From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Xah Lee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: auto save files Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 11:40:52 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <8583d12d-1b96-418a-be6c-8876101dbd2b@i4g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1291864588 26790 80.91.229.12 (9 Dec 2010 03:16:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 03:16:28 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 09 04:16:24 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PQWzX-0004KO-77 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 09 Dec 2010 04:16:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39530 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PQWzD-00050y-SB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2010 22:16:04 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!m17g2000prl.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help,comp.emacs Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.180.85.8 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1283193653 3713 127.0.0.1 (30 Aug 2010 18:40:53 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:40:53 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: m17g2000prl.googlegroups.com; posting-host=67.180.85.8; posting-account=bRPKjQoAAACxZsR8_VPXCX27T2YcsyMA User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/533.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/5.0.375.127 Safari/533.4, gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:181026 comp.emacs:100417 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:76530 Archived-At: On Aug 30, 9:31=A0am, rustom wrote: > On Aug 29, 9:55=A0pm, Xah Lee wrote: > > > is there a auto save mode that actually save the file instead of > > making #file# copies? > > > or perhaps there's a variable to tweak? > > > thanks. > > > =A0Xah > > Not tried this but setting the variable auto-save-visited-file-name > may be what you want? thanks rustom. Am thinking, if i turn that on and autosave on, autosave will still try to create those #files# when the buffer isn't a normal file? Xah