Re: emacs and autosaving
Quoting 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.
You can also type <ESC> 0 ^X ^S to prevent leaving a foobar~ file
when using emacs on ephemeral files (like this email).
Cheers,
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