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Created May 16, 2012 00:36
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add to init.el
(custom-set-variables
;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom.
;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
'(auto-save-default t)
'(auto-save-interval 20)
'(auto-save-timeout 1)
;; this doesn't actually work
'(inhibit-clash-detection t)
'(auto-save-visited-file-name t)
'(global-auto-revert-mode t))
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One problem is that this exposes an emacs bug where emacs fails to delete its lock files when it autosaves.
I added this line to my .profile and I run it all the time:

alias cleanmacs='find . -name ".#*" | xargs rm'

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Nice.!

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