Re: A whole lotta auto-saving going

[Aaron Jensen]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2021 at 5:10 AM Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
>
> Aaron Jensen <aaronjensen@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Here's a repro from emacs -Q:
> >
> > (require 'package)
> > (let* ((no-ssl (and (memq system-type '(windows-nt ms-dos))
> >                     (not (gnutls-available-p))))
> >        (url (concat (if no-ssl "http" "https") "://melpa.org/packages/")))
> >   (add-to-list 'package-archives (cons "melpa" url) t))
> > (package-initialize)
> > (package-install 'enh-ruby-mode)
> > (enh-ruby-mode)
> > (auto-save-mode)
> >
> > Then start typing, it should flicker "Auto-saving...done" in the echo area
>
> Do you have a repro that doesn't involve installing outside packages?
> :-)  That would help a lot.

No, I don't, though I'm sure one could whittle down the external
dependency to just the piece that causes it. enh-ruby-mode has an
external process that it runs and communicates with in an
after-change-function. I'd start there.