Re: hexl: auto-save saves file in hexlified format

[Richard Stallman]

    While editing a file using hexl-mode, all auto-save files are written
    in 'hexlified' format, rather than in the raw binary format.  This
    means that the auto-save files are 4.25 times bigger than they need to
    be, and take 4.25 times longer to save.

    Shouldn't auto-saving a file use the same hooks that save-buffer uses?

That seems too radical -- I don't like the idea of making auto-save
modify the buffer.  It would be safer to find a way to make Hexl mode
avoid hexilfying after reverting from an auto-save file.  This would
mean changing hexl-after-revert-hook, and giving it a clean way to
determine whether the revert was from an auto-save file or not.

Would someone who has signed papers like to do that?