Auto-Saving Files

Jade is able to save snapshots of a buffer's contents at set time intervals. When this time interval expires and the buffer has been modified since it was last (auto-) saved to disk (and the editor is idle) the buffer is saved to a special file (usually the base component of the file's name surrounded by `#' characters in the file's directory).

Variable: auto-save-p

When non-nil this makes the function open-file (and therefore the commands find-file, etc) flag that the file it just read should be auto saved regularly.

Variable: default-auto-save-interval

This is the default number of seconds between each auto save. This variable is only referenced when each file is opened.

Its standard value is 120 seconds.

Variable: auto-save-interval

This buffer-local variable controls the number of seconds between each auto-save of the buffer it belongs to. A value of zero means never auto-save.

When the buffer is saved properly (i.e. with save-file and friends) its auto-save file is deleted. Note that this doesn't happen when you kill a buffer and an auto-save file exists (in case you didn't mean to kill the buffer).

To recover an auto-saved file (i.e. after an editor crash or something!) use the command recover-file.

Meta-x recover-file

Loads the auto-saved copy of the file stored in this buffer overwriting its current contents (if any changes are to be lost you will have to agree to losing them).

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