Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 19:15:06 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: John Covici <covici AT ccs DOT covici DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: problem with Emacs 20.2 Under Dos Box in Win95
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On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, John Covici wrote:

> Even though delete-autosave-files is t, they are not being deleted when
> a buffer is killed and yes is answered to the kill anyway question.

That variable causes the auto-save files to be deleted only if the
file which is visited in the buffer was already saved by this Emacs
session.  That is, if the buffer was modified since the last time it
was saved, the auto-save file is NOT deleted even if this variable is
set to non-nil.

This variable exists to *prevent* auto-save files from being deleted,
even when you save the buffer.  It is *not* meant to be used to defeat
auto-saving of unsaved buffers.  Thus its default value is t; if you
change that to nil, auto-save files are *never* deleted.

Do you *really* want your unsaved edits to vanish when you kill a
modified buffer?  Note that auto-saving is automatically done when
Emacs catches a fatal signal, whereby the auto-save files are the only
way to recover your edits.

The directory edit (aka Dired) mode will mark all auto-save files in a
directory if you press `#', so you can always delete them all in one
swell whoop.

> Also, some files do not have their carriage returns automatically
> eliminated -- I haven't figured out why with these particular files.

Please tell which files are those, or give examples.  Emacs uses a
sophisticated logic to make this decision, but sometimes it needs help
from the user.