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

[hw]

On Mon, 2022-03-21 at 14:22 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 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?

There must be something wrong with the documentation then.  The
auto-save files are being put into the directories their files are in,
and I didn't change the default.