Re: Upcoming 23.1 release

[Chong Yidong]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

> AFAIK tar-mode (which also uses the buffer-swapping) support
> auto-saving.  So either Rmail can be fixed to work like tar-mode, or
> tar-mode suffers from the same problem (unnoticed until now).

I think tar-mode also turns off auto-save-mode by default:

(defun tar-subfile-mode (p)
  ...
  (cond (tar-subfile-mode
         (add-hook 'write-file-functions 'tar-subfile-save-buffer nil t)
         ;; turn off auto-save.
         (auto-save-mode -1)