include-yy / tetosave

Automatically save files without temporary files to protect your finger. ;)

This repo is archived and moved to yyelpa/tetosave, see: https://github.com/yyelpa/tetosave

What is tetosave?

• No need to save manually, protect your fingers.
• Cleanup trailing backspace

This package is folked from lazycat’s auto-save, plus some improvements(IMO).

• https://github.com/manateelazycat/auto-save

Installation

Clone or download this repository, and add its path to load-path:

(add-to-list 'load-path <path-to-tetosave>)

If you are using Emacs 29 or above, you can use package-vc to get it like this(without need to add load-path)

(add-to-list 'package-vc-selected-packages
	       '(tetosave :url "https://github.com/include-yy/tetosave"))
(package-vc-install-selected-packages)

In your config file, add the following lines:

(use-package tetosave
  :config
  (setopt tetosave-idle 0.5)
  (tetosave-enable)
  ;; OPTIONAL
  ;; custom predicates if you don't want auto save.
  ;; example: disable tetosave when current filetype is an gpg file.
  (add-to-list 'tetosave-disable-predicates
		 (defun init/teto-pred-gpg ()
		   (eq major-mode 'authinfo-mode))))

For more detailed customization, see comments in tetosave.el.

Suggestions

Emacs’ default auto-save is stupid to generate #foo# files. You can add these lines to disable them:

(setq make-backup-files nil)
(setq auto-save-default nil)
(setq create-lockfiles nil)