From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Dave Saville" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Autosave. Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 20:37:10 +0100 (BST) Organization: ntl Cablemodem News Service Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: Reply-To: Dave Saville NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066419989 18685 80.91.224.253 (17 Oct 2003 19:46:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 19:46:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 17 21:46:27 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 1AAaYM-0002LB-01 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 21:46:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AAaYD-0008DL-7I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:46:17 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.uchicago.edu!yellow.newsread.com!netaxs.com!newsread.com!feed2.newsreader.com!newsreader.com!news-xfer1.atl.newshosting.com!63.218.45.11.MISMATCH!newshosting.com!news-xfer2.atl.newshosting.com!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!diablo.theplanet.net!newspeer1-gui.server.ntli.net!ntli.net!newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Newsreader: PMINews 2.00.1205 For OS/2 Original-Lines: 51 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.2.207.118 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@ntlworld.com Original-X-Trace: newsfep4-glfd.server.ntli.net 1066419431 80.2.207.118 (Fri, 17 Oct 2003 20:37:11 BST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2003 20:37:11 BST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:117377 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:13307 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:13307 Hi I hope this is not a FAQ, but I have searched all over and cannot find an answer. I have two versions of emacs on OS/2 19.38 & 20.6 I cannot get auto-save to work - I have this in .emacs - which I cribbed from somewhere: (setq auto-save-directory (expand-file-name "~/autosaves/") auto-save-directory-fallback auto-save-directory auto-save-hash-p t ange-ftp-auto-save t ange-ftp-auto-save-remotely nil ;; now that we have auto-save-timeout, let's crank this up ;; for better interactive response. auto-save-interval 2000 ) (require 'auto-save) When 19.38 starts it throws an error of Signaling: (void-variable Auto-save-name-in-fixed-directory) byte-code(.........) require(auto-save) 20.5 does not even get this far (d:/apps/emacs/20.6/bin/emacs.exe -debug-init) Loading disp-table... Loading disp-table...done Loading server... Loading server...done Starting process: no such file or directory Nice if it would say what :-) Both errors appear *after* Loading server...done I have auto-save 1.26 TIA Regards Dave Saville NB switch saville for nospam in address