GNU bug report logs - #25478
26.0.50; No hooks are called when auto-saving

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Message #14 received at 25478 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com, 25478 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#25478: 26.0.50; No hooks are called when auto-saving
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2017 12:42:48 -0500

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> All in all, I think this option is subtly dangerous and should be
> either deprecated or completely reimplemented to invoke
> basic-save-buffer instead.  I'm quite sure this option made sense in
> the past, when complications with encoding and save-related hooks
> didn't exist, but that is no longer the case in Emacs these days.
> If someone thinks using this option will allow them not to bother with
> saving their edits, they are in for an unpleasant surprise.

Deprecation sounds good to me.
I believe there's a "real-auto-save" package that does a standard save
at intervals.

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