Re: Upcoming 23.1 release

[Stefan Monnier]

>> 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)

That's for the subfiles (i.e. the buffers showing one of the member of
the archive), not for the tar-mode buffer.


        Stefan