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(Auto Save Control): Document that values of auto-save-interval less
than 20 are treated as if they were 20.
author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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date | Sat, 03 Nov 2001 18:58:07 +0000 |
parents | 343d48d4e64c |
children | 86a0b7cc1600 |
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978 | 978 |
979 @vindex auto-save-interval | 979 @vindex auto-save-interval |
980 Emacs does auto-saving periodically based on counting how many characters | 980 Emacs does auto-saving periodically based on counting how many characters |
981 you have typed since the last time auto-saving was done. The variable | 981 you have typed since the last time auto-saving was done. The variable |
982 @code{auto-save-interval} specifies how many characters there are between | 982 @code{auto-save-interval} specifies how many characters there are between |
983 auto-saves. By default, it is 300. | 983 auto-saves. By default, it is 300. Emacs doesn't accept values that are |
984 too small: if you customize @code{auto-save-interval} to a value less | |
985 than 20, Emacs will behave as if the value is 20. | |
984 | 986 |
985 @vindex auto-save-timeout | 987 @vindex auto-save-timeout |
986 Auto-saving also takes place when you stop typing for a while. The | 988 Auto-saving also takes place when you stop typing for a while. The |
987 variable @code{auto-save-timeout} says how many seconds Emacs should | 989 variable @code{auto-save-timeout} says how many seconds Emacs should |
988 wait before it does an auto save (and perhaps also a garbage | 990 wait before it does an auto save (and perhaps also a garbage |