Re: how to force auto-save of buffers not visiting files, right now?

[hw]

On Sat, 2022-03-19 at 08:51 +0100, Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU 
Emacs text editor wrote:
> hw wrote:
> 
> > > Why not just use normal backup files?
> > 
> > Because I would need to delete them eventually, and IIRC,
> > tramp doesn't necessarily delete them.
> 
> 1) No :)
> 
> 2) And this command is better:
> 
>      du -hc ~/**/*~ | tail -1 | cut -f 1

Better how for what?  I took so long to run that I interrupted it
before it produced any output, after like 20 seconds.