Re: auto save for shell buffers

[Andreas Schwab]

On Jan 24 2018, Robert Pluim <address@hidden> wrote:

> Perry Smith <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> How can I set things up so the buffer being used to run an inferior shell 
>> will be autosaved periodically to a file?
>>
>> The file to save in could be named "shell-2018-01-22".
>>
>> I thought this would be trivial but it seems the autosave concept is
>> deeply tied into the visiting file concepts which of course, doesn't
>> apply for the buffer being used by the inferior shell.
>>
>
> I'm not sure why you think that. You can save the shell buffer to a
> file, and it will be autosaved. Note that the shell buffer doesn't
> have to be called "*shell*"

Also, auto-save handles non-file buffers as well.

Andreas.

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