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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2017-01-20 10:34:15 +0200 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2017-01-20 10:34:15 +0200 |
| commit | 9fcab85efd10090786266610f4dbb83ee0da4b31 (patch) | |
| tree | 11011d4d9348aca42790b132950da28cceeafc9d | |
| parent | 2236c53bbec60480f624b32171a77d79b488f2da (diff) | |
| download | emacs-9fcab85efd10090786266610f4dbb83ee0da4b31.tar.gz | |
Improve documentation of auto-save-visited-file-name
* doc/emacs/files.texi (Auto Save Files): Mention subtle
differences between saving the buffer and auto-saving with
auto-save-visited-file-name set non-nil. (Bug#25478)
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/emacs/files.texi | 6 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/emacs/files.texi b/doc/emacs/files.texi index 47f92812be9..efe4156c435 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/files.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/files.texi @@ -1038,8 +1038,10 @@ auto-save-mode}. If you want auto-saving to be done in the visited file rather than in a separate auto-save file, set the variable @code{auto-save-visited-file-name} to a non-@code{nil} value. In this -mode, there is no real difference between auto-saving and explicit -saving. +mode, auto-saving is very similar to explicit saving. However, +differences still exist, in particular for modes which modify the +buffer-saving process in non-trivial ways via various hooks +(@pxref{Saving Buffers,,, elisp, The Emacs Lisp Reference Manual}). @vindex delete-auto-save-files A buffer's auto-save file is deleted when you save the buffer in its |