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

[Emanuel Berg]

hw wrote:

> Its value is
> (("\\`/[^/]*:\\([^/]*/\\)*\\([^/]*\\)\\'" "/tmp/\\2" t))
>
> Ah, hm, what is that regexp supposed to match?

You must decipher it char by char if you don't understand it.

And keep doing this every time you see one that you want to
understand or use.

Before long, "decipher" ends and "seeing" begins.

Or, as the great late expert of symbolic representation
Yogi Berra once said, you can see a lot just by watching!

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