* auto-save-file-name-transforms should use per-user directory
@ 2004-05-24 16:35 Dave Love
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From: Dave Love @ 2004-05-24 16:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
The default for `auto-save-file-name-transforms' currently puts
backups for remote files directly into `temporary-file-directory'. It
doesn't seem a good idea to share a directory for backup files on a
multi-user system (apart from the normal security issues with
predictable names in /tmp). Also, if the machine crashes and reboots,
it probably clears /tmp, along with the backup of your work.
How about using a directory under ~/.emacs.d instead,
e.g. `~/.emacs.d/autosaves'?
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