The generic concept of automatically saving information to the disk or to a remote server, triggered by a timer or any other event inside of Emacs.
Use this tag if your question directly relates to Emacs autosave behavior.
Questions tagged [auto-save]
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How to place all auto-save files in a directory
I would like to put all of my auto-save files into a directory, say something like
~/.emacs-saves
Based on what's written in the wiki, I came up with this:
(setq backup-by-copying t ; don't clobber symlinks
backup-directory-alist '(("."…
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Disabling the "Auto-saving...done" message
I want my documents to be auto-saved, but I don't want to be interrupted with the message "Auto-saving...done" every few minutes.
Is there a way to just disable this message, but not the auto-saving functionality?
I have tried the following without…
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How to autosave a buffer to the original file on disk?
I want Emacs to auto-save a buffer or buffers so that I don't have to press C-x C-s each time.
With auto-save turned on, I see the label "Auto-saving.... Done", which appears once in 30 seconds or so. But why is the document still not saved?
After…
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How to disable auto-save in emacs only for files opened as root
I want to use emacs auto-save feature with tramp, but only for file that I don't open using sudo. My current configuration, based on the tramp documentation, looks like this:
;;;;;;;; BAKUCP ;;;;;;;;
;; Backup remote files locally to stop autosave…
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Disable prompting to auto-recover when auto-save data is the same as file
When I kill emacs (with killall emacs from a shell prompt, for example), and I was editing a file, Emacs restarts with a message
filename has auto save data; consider M-x recover-this-file
If I had recently saved the file, then modified it and…
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Save buffer at each modification
I'd like to know if it is possible the buffer is saved at the exact moment of modification; at the instant of the key up event.
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Keep auto-save files out of directory
I found different solutions for keeping auto-save files out of the directory where the original file is located on the internet, including
(defconst emacs-tmp-dir (format "%s/%s%s/" "/t" "emacs" (user-uid)))
(setq backup-directory-alist
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Auto-save buffers that aren't visiting files
I often do something like:
C-x b foobarbaz RET
to get a new buffer for taking notes, etc. I'd love for emacs to just snapshot and dump all open buffers to disk occasionally. There's lots of documentation out there for improving auto-save and backup…
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Emacs doesn't let me exit without selecting a coding system
Sometimes to speed up of opening an emacs' eshell directly from terminal (in my case from MS DOS prompt), I do emacs -Q -f eshell. But when I try to exit emacs doesn't let it, unless I give some input to the below message in the mini-buffer.
select…
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untracked ".#file" in a git repository?
Q: where do untracked .#files come from when working in a git repository?
When working on file example.txt in a git repository, I occasionally get an untracked file showing up in status titled .#example.txt (that is, dot-hash-filename). (This…
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Autosave *scratch* to a directory
When typing ls in my home directory, I amm greeted by a lot of this:
#%2Ascratch%2A#1399_po# #%2Ascratch%2A#14484YsZ# [...]
I also have the following in my init.el
(defvar autosave-location (concat user-emacs-directory "data/autosave"))
(setq…
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save a particular buffer without prompting on emacs exit?
I have a particular buffer that collects statistics from my emacs sessions. I could write the buffer every time I update the statistics, but that's not efficient. I want to auto-write the buffer whenever I quit emacs.
I have normal auto-saving…
Kevin
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Buffer file replaced with lockfile/backupfile location
I have been suffering this issue for a few months, unable to reproduce it until now.
In short, the issue is that when creating a new file, editing it, and then deciding to rename the file, the buffer's file is replaced by the lockfile location and…
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How can backup-directory-alist be set to save in the files directory?
I want the backup files to be created in sub-directories of the files being edited, and I have created a function returns that directory.
(defun tempfilepath ()
(interactive)
(concat (file-name-directory buffer-file-name)…
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Emacs wont reopen my files from recover session
I was working in emacs when had a power outage, so my computer was knocked offline. After I got the computer back up, I launched emacs and tried to restore the last session. Emacs then said: "No files can be recovered from this session now". All my…
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