https://github.com/ChillarAnand/real-auto-save

Automatically save your all your buffers/files at regular intervals in Emacs!
https://github.com/ChillarAnand/real-auto-save

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Automatically save your all your buffers/files at regular intervals in Emacs!

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ChillarAnand/real-auto-save
• Owner: ChillarAnand
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2015-01-28T04:51:47.000Z (almost 10 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2021-10-02T06:57:30.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-11T07:12:19.739Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: buffers, elisp, emacs
• Language: Emacs Lisp
• Homepage:
• Size: 71.3 KB
• Stars: 52
• Watchers: 7
• Forks: 13
• Open Issues: 10
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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[![MELPA](http://melpa.org/packages/real-auto-save-badge.svg)](http://melpa.org/#/real-auto-save)

# real-auto-save

Automatically save your all your files at regular intervals.

## Installation

### MELPA

You can install a snapshot of real-auto-save from the [MELPA](http://melpa.org/#/real-auto-save) repository.

### Github

Download `real-auto-save.el` and put this file in a folder where Emacs can find it.

Add following lines to your .emacs initialization file to enable auto save in all programming modes.

     (require 'real-auto-save)

     (add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'real-auto-save-mode)

## Configuration

Auto save interval is 10 seconds by default. You can change it:

     (setq real-auto-save-interval 5) ;; in seconds

Emacs 26.1 introduced `auto-save-visited-mode`. But that new mode is global, and saves *all* buffers. For a more limited solution, use `real-auto-save` with a file-local variable or mode hook.

For example, to use this mode only for org files, add this to your Emacs config:

    (require 'real-auto-save)

    (add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'real-auto-save-mode)

By default, real-auto-save mode uses idle timer. If your emacs is idle, after `real-auto-save-interval` seconds it will save buffers.

If you want to save all your buffers, every `real-auto-save-interval` seconds.

## Acknowledgments

Thanks to [Steve Purcell](https://github.com/purcell) for reviewing and providing help with development.

Thanks to all contributors!

## Contribution

- cask

  - install via brew

    ```shell

    brew install cask

    ```

  - manual install

    ```shell

    cd ~/

    hub clone cask/cask

    export PATH="$HOME/.cask/bin:$PATH"

    ```