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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: hw <hw@adminart.net>
> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2022 04:55:22 +0100
> 
> > > > > Its value is
> > > > > (("\\`/[^/]*:\\([^/]*/\\)*\\([^/]*\\)\\'" "/tmp/\\2" t))
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > Yes --- I didn't see that because that expression is so unreadable.
> > 
> > To some it is readable, to some not. It takes some practice.
> 
> I'm sure there are 5 people for whom it's easily readable.  For others,
> it would be helpful if the description would explain what the default
> is supposed to match and if it would have same useful examples.

The doc string already does that:

  The default value is set up to put the auto-save file into the
  temporary directory (see the variable ‘temporary-file-directory’) for
  editing a remote file.

I think this is pretty easy to understand, don't you agree?