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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jeremy Baxter <jeremy@baxters.nz>
Cc: james.ipswich@proton.me, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Reconsider make-backup-files default value
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 15:04:03 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86msk7dcuk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a5g84hn4.fsf@baxters.nz> (message from Jeremy Baxter on Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:29:35 +1200)

> From: Jeremy Baxter <jeremy@baxters.nz>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 11:29:35 +1200
> 
> I also think this default behaviour can be quite annoying but having
> automatic backups can also come in very handy at times. A possible
> solution to the leftover backup issue is storing backup files in some
> specified directory, such as .emacs.d/auto-saves.

This is possible, of course, and supported by Emacs, but it has a
disadvantage of quickly making that directory unmanageable.  So not
everyone will like this, if it becomes the default.



  reply	other threads:[~2024-09-16 12:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-15 22:19 Reconsider make-backup-files default value James Ipswich
2024-09-15 23:29 ` Jeremy Baxter
2024-09-16 12:04   ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-09-18 20:14     ` Petteri Hintsanen
2024-09-18 21:46       ` Christopher Howard
2024-09-19  5:23         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-19  6:10           ` Juri Linkov
2024-09-19  6:36             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-15 23:40 ` pinmacs
2024-09-16 12:10   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-16  0:03 ` James Ipswich
2024-09-16  0:14   ` Jeremy Baxter
2024-09-16 12:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-18 13:24   ` Po Lu
2024-09-18 13:37     ` Emanuel Berg
2024-09-18 23:31     ` Stefan Kangas
2024-09-19  2:41       ` Po Lu
2024-09-19  5:23       ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2024-09-20  8:23         ` Andrea Corallo
2024-09-19  5:49       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-18  3:51 ` Richard Stallman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-09-16  0:15 Martin Edström

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