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The generic concept of automatically saving information to the disk or to a remote server, triggered by a timer or any other event inside of Emacs.

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How to autosave a buffer to the original file on disk?

I want Emacs to auto-save a buffer or buffers so that I don't have to press C-x C-s each time. With auto-save turned on, I see the label "Auto-saving.... Done", which appears once in 30 seconds or so …
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How can I get Emacs to save the changes automatically each X seconds?

How can I setup Emacs >= 24.4 so that it saves at least the current file I'm working on automatically, say, each 5 seconds, so that I don't have to press C-x C-s each time to save my changes?
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