emacs autosave behaviour

[Jannis]

Dear emacs users,


i would like the emacs autosave scheme to behave like the follwoing:

- put all these ~* and #* files into one central directory and not the 
directory of the file edited
- save several versions of these backup (in the same directory)


To do so, I have put the following into .emacs:

(custom-set-variables
 '(auto-save-file-name-transforms (quote ((".*" 
"~/.emacs.d/autosaves/\\1" t))))
 '(backup-directory-alist (quote ((".*" . "~/.emacs.d/autosaves/"))))
 '(comint-move-point-for-output (quote others))

 '(make-directory "~/.emacs.d/autosaves/" t)
 '(version-control t)
 '(kept-new-versions 5)
 '(kept-old-versions 5)
 )

This is just copy pasted stuff from the web so I do not understand in 
depth what actually happens.

My problem now is that I get a backup version each time I open a file in 
a new emacs instance and save some changes. I would, however, like to 
have a version each time i hit save even if I open the file just once 
and save it several times.

Any suggestion on how to accomplish this?


Cheers
Jannis