Variable: auto-save-timeout

auto-save-timeout is a customizable variable defined in keyboard.c.

Value

30

Documentation

Number of seconds idle time before auto-save.

Zero or nil means disable auto-saving due to idleness. After auto-saving due to this many seconds of idle time, Emacs also does a garbage collection if that seems to be warranted.

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 19.1.

Source Code

// Defined in /usr/src/emacs/src/keyboard.c
  DEFVAR_LISP ("auto-save-timeout", Vauto_save_timeout,
	       doc: /* Number of seconds idle time before auto-save.
Zero or nil means disable auto-saving due to idleness.
After auto-saving due to this many seconds of idle time,
Emacs also does a garbage collection if that seems to be warranted.  */);