(original-make-auto-save-file-name): New.

(make-auto-save-file-name): New function, overrides the definition
on files.el and calls the original function via
original-make-auto-save-file-name.

2 files changed, 24 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index 42f897fb98f..e69e04dd552 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 2001-09-16  Eli Zaretskii  <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
 
+        * dos-fns.el (original-make-auto-save-file-name): New.
+        (make-auto-save-file-name): New function, overrides the definition
+        on files.el and calls the original function via
+        original-make-auto-save-file-name.
+
         * mail/rmail.el (top-level): Require mule-utils when compiling.
         (rmail-decode-babyl-format): Use detect-coding-with-priority
         instead of detect-coding-region, to favor detection of emacs-mule
diff --git a/lisp/dos-fns.el b/lisp/dos-fns.el
index 1a727f139d5..3751cc76d24 100644
--- a/lisp/dos-fns.el
+++ b/lisp/dos-fns.el
@@ -172,6 +172,25 @@ with a definition that really does change some file names."
                     (dos-8+3-filename dir))
                   string))))))
 
+;; Make sure auto-save file names don't contain characters invalid for
+;; the underlying filesystem.  This is particularly annoying with
+;; `compose-mail's *mail* buffers: `*' is not allowed in file names on
+;; DOS/Windows, so Emacs bitches on you each time it tries to autosave
+;; the message being composed.
+(fset 'original-make-auto-save-file-name
+      (symbol-function 'make-auto-save-file-name))
+
+(defun make-auto-save-file-name ()
+  "Return file name to use for auto-saves of current buffer.
+Does not consider `auto-save-visited-file-name' as that variable is checked
+before calling this function.  You can redefine this for customization.
+See also `auto-save-file-name-p'."
+  (let ((filename (original-make-auto-save-file-name)))
+    ;; Don't modify remote (ange-ftp) filenames
+    (if (string-match "^/\\w+@[-A-Za-z0-9._]+:" filename)
+        filename
+      (convert-standard-filename filename))))
+
 ;; See dos-vars.el for defcustom.
 (defvar msdos-shells)