real-auto-save

Automatically save your all your files at regular intervals.

Installation

MELPA

You can install a snapshot of real-auto-save from the MELPA repository.

Github

Download real-auto-save.el and put this file in a folder where Emacs can find it. Add following lines to your .emacs initialization file to enable auto save in all programming modes.

 (require 'real-auto-save)
 (add-hook 'prog-mode-hook 'real-auto-save-mode)

Configuration

Auto save interval is 10 seconds by default. You can change it:

 (setq real-auto-save-interval 5) ;; in seconds

Emacs 26.1 introduced auto-save-visited-mode. But that new mode is global, and saves all buffers. For a more limited solution, use real-auto-save with a file-local variable or mode hook.

For example, to use this mode only for org files, add this to your Emacs config:

(require 'real-auto-save)
(add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'real-auto-save-mode)

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Steve Purcell for reviewing and providing help with development.

Thanks to all contributors!