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From: "Martin Edström" <meedstrom@runbox.com>
To: "pinmacs" <pinmacs@cas.cat>
Cc: "emacs-devel" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Reconsider make-backup-files default value
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2024 02:15:19 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1spzOh-0001OU-Js@rmmprod06.runbox> (raw)

> No other editors [2] are doing something like that by default;

Several do, e.g. LibreOffice, TextEdit... they just hide it.  The equivalent of having a backup-directory-alist configured to put it all inside ~/.emacs.d.

Interestingly, Emacs Prelude places it in /tmp, and Doom Emacs disables backups [1], but in case the user re-enables them, it actually hashes the backup filenames to make them shorter [2] but I don't like it since I rename files a lot and the hashed names destroy my ability to find backups under an old name.

[1] https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs/blob/master/lisp/doom-editor.el#L94

[2] https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs/blob/master/lisp/doom-editor.el#L151


             reply	other threads:[~2024-09-16  0:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-16  0:15 Martin Edström [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
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
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

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