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In article <9304182009.AA05495@garm.diku.dk> thansen@diku.dk (Thorbjoern Hansen) writes:

   If I invoke vm-mail in a buffer that lies in a directory which I
   cannot write, the autosave routine will try to save *VM-Mail* to that
   directory, and fail, thus beeping every 300 keystrokes.

   What is the right thing to do?  Change vm-mail,
   make-auto-save-file-name or buffer-auto-save-file-name?  Or something
   else?

For this reason, and because I don't like the idea of emacs auto-
saving wherever I happen to be when I start composing mail, I use
Sebastian Kremer's wonderful auto-save.el package.  A side benefit of
this is that since it works with ange-ftp, you also get transparent
auto-saving of files you're editing remotely.

Basically, you give it a directory somewhere (e.g., a subdirectory in
your home directory), and all of your auto-saves will be written to
that directory, rather than to the current directory.

It's in the elisp archives, as follows:

;;;; LISPDIR ENTRY for the Elisp Archive ===============================
;;;;    LCD Archive Entry:
;;;;    auto-save|Sebastian Kremer|sk@thp.uni-koeln.de
;;;;    |safer autosaving with support for ange-ftp and /tmp
;;;;    |$Date: 1992/05/01 14:06:06 $|$Revision: 1.19 $|

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