Gnus 5.x doesn't autosave!

Gnus 5.x doesn't autosave!

[Gord Matzigkeit]

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted as well.

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Hi!

I have Gnus 5.0.12, and have been a faithful (ding) user, ever since
(ding) 0.12 was released.

Again, great job Lars!

*Why* does Gnus not do autosaves of the post-news buffer?  I was just
bitten by this today.

I spent 20 mins composing an article when my ISP dropped the
connection.  Much to my horror, there was no #*post-news*... file,
like there is when I write mail (there's an autosave file called
#*mail*#a17828#, for example).

I don't really have time to investigate this right now, so I was
hoping that somebody already has a patch (if it is Gnus's fault) or a
workaround (if it is some other package's fault).

This is with Emacs 19.28.

Thanks,

- --Gord

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Re: Gnus 5.x doesn't autosave!

[Steve Baumgarten]

   *Why* does Gnus not do autosaves of the post-news buffer?  I was just
   bitten by this today.
   
I've been bitten by it, too.  
   
   I don't really have time to investigate this right now, so I was
   hoping that somebody already has a patch (if it is Gnus's fault) or a
   workaround (if it is some other package's fault).
   
I use this in my .emacs:
   
(add-hook 'news-reply-mode-hook (function (lambda () (auto-save-mode 4))))

Seems to do the trick.  But I agree, it would be nice if auto-saving
were enabled by default.

Steve Baumgarten
sbb@panix.com