Re: Does the auto save directory work?

[Michael Albinus]

Wenguang Wang <address@hidden> writes:

Hi,

> I need to disable auto-save to make tramp really work smoothly. So I
> added
>
> (setq tramp-auto-save-directory "~/emacs/tramp-autosave")
> However, I never saw anything created in that file. Its “stat” shows
> that its modification and change time never changed.

I've tried it locally, starting "emacs -Q". That works for me. Could you
try this as well?

> How to properly disable auto-save?

Disabling is something different. If you want to disable it, you must
call "M-x auto-save-mode" in a remote buffer (or do it via an entry in
find-file-hook).

> -Wenguang

Best regards, Michael.