Re: emacs and autosaving

[Peter Weiss <pewe@ifconnection.de>]

>>>>> On Thu, 1 Apr 1999 14:28:10 +0100 (IST), Angus Claydon <claydona@ms3.hinet.net> said:

Angus> IMHO  If there's one program that could firmly go into the Heinz category
Angus> (in
Angus> terms of it being better because its harder to get out of the bottle)
Angus> my vote would be  for emacs.

Angus> Is it possible to turn off the autosaving feature?


Hi Angus,

   from my *Help* buffer:

auto-save-default's value is 
t

Documentation:
*Non-nil says by default do auto-saving of every file-visiting buffer.

You can customize this variable.

   So putting a

      (setq auto-save-default nil)

   in your .emacs file should turn this feature off.

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