Gunnar Evermann <ge204(a)eng.cam.ac.uk&gt; writes: [...] 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.)