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Re: make-auto-save-file-name: not using name transforms for mere buffers
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: make-auto-save-file-name: not using name transforms for mere buffers |
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Wed, 10 Dec 2003 19:06:39 +0200 |
> From: Florian von Savigny <florian265@uboot.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: 10 Dec 2003 17:07:36 +0100
>
> I have tried customising auto-save-file-name-transforms, but this does
> not work, apparently because make-auto-save-file-name only uses it if
> the buffer is visiting a file (does anybody know why on earth?).
Because its doc string says, in its very first line:
*Transforms to apply to buffer file name before making auto-save file name.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
So buffers with no file name are not subject to such transforms.
> Is there any standard way to make make-auto-save-file-name use it also
> for buffer names, or do I simply have to hack the function?
Instead of hacking make-auto-save-file-name, I'd suggest to hack
convert-standard-file-name. On GNU and Unix systems, this function
simply returns its argument. What you need is to redefine it so that
it recognizes that its argument file resides on a VFAT volume, and
then applies the same transformations done by the MS-Windows variant
of convert-standard-file-name (see w32-fns.el).
- make-auto-save-file-name: not using name transforms for mere buffers, Florian von Savigny, 2003/12/10
- Re: make-auto-save-file-name: not using name transforms for mere buffers,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: make-auto-save-file-name: not using name transforms for mere buffers, Kevin Rodgers, 2003/12/10
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- Re: make-auto-save-file-name: not using name transforms for mere buffers, Florian von Savigny, 2003/12/11
- Re: make-auto-save-file-name: not using name transforms for mere buffers, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/12/11
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- Re: make-auto-save-file-name: not using name transforms for mere buffers, Florian von Savigny, 2003/12/11
- Re: make-auto-save-file-name: not using name transforms for mere buffers, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/12/12
- Re: make-auto-save-file-name: not using name transforms for mere buffers, Kevin Rodgers, 2003/12/12
- Re: make-auto-save-file-name: not using name transforms for mere buffers, Florian von Savigny, 2003/12/13
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- Re: make-auto-save-file-name: not using name transforms for mere buffers, Florian von Savigny, 2003/12/13
- Re: make-auto-save-file-name: not using name transforms for mere buffers, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/12/13
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- Re: make-auto-save-file-name: not using name transforms for mere buffers, Florian von Savigny, 2003/12/13