Re: [BTS] unloading of auto-save.el
Gunnar Evermann <ge204(a)eng.cam.ac.uk> writes:
I'm not quite sure what to do about this...
any comments?
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With the advent of the package system in XEmacs 21.1, the file
auto-save.el moved from the "packages" subdirectory of the old lisp
hierarchy to the core lisp directory, where it is now loaded as part
of the default XEmacs build process; unlike past versions, you get
auto-save.el whether you want it or not.
I don't particularly like/want the added auto-save.el functionality,
so I tried
Greg, what exactly is your problem with auto-save.el? The way I see
it, it doesn't do anything naughty by default; in fact, most people
never noticed the transition. If you want auto-saving turned off,
just set `auto-save-default' to nil.
Is there anything particular that the old auto-save.el code did better
than the new one?
(I believe auto-save.el was added partly because of better support for
MS Windows, which old routines didn't handle gracefully.)