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>>>>> "TS" == Tjemsland Svein <etostj@etn.ericsson.se> writes:

TS> I often get an "autosaveing ....!error" message when i work on "R" or
TS> "r" buffers, notably most on "r" buffers. Does anyone have a clue
TS> about what this could be ??

Ten days ago I wrote:

ME> If I invoke vm-mail in a buffer that lies in a directory which I
ME> cannot write, the autosave routine will try to save *VM-Mail* to that
ME> directory, and fail, thus beeping every 300 keystrokes.
ME> 
ME> What is the right thing to do?  Change vm-mail,
ME> make-auto-save-file-name or buffer-auto-save-file-name?  Or something
ME> else?

I got this reply:

>>>>> "SB" == Steve Baumgarten <sbb@panix.com> writes:

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

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

SB> It's in the elisp archives, as follows:

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

Well, I did not find it in the elisp archive, but it comes with the
Lucid distribution in lisp/packages/auto-save.el.  I have not tried it
yet.  If anybody wants it, mail me.

        Thorbjoern
        
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