From: Dr Rainer Woitok <rainer.woitok@gmail.com>
To: numbchild@gmail.com
Cc: Emacs Help <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [NEED HELP] How to find out weird thing caused Emacs auto save scratch buffer as lot of files
Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 10:54:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <25708.32610.852278.42334@woitok.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Msg <646c3199.170a0220.12d51.9eb2@mx.google.com> of 2023-05-23 11:09:28 +0800 from numbchild@gmail.com
Christopher,
On Tuesday, 2023-05-23 11:09:28 +0800, you wrote:
> Recently I found in my user home directory, has lot of files named like:
> ...
> /Users/stardiviner/#%2Ascratch%2A#UKK9EL#
Not a real solution, but:
The ASCII character at 0x2a is "*". And a running Emacs definitely has
a buffer "*scratch*" open. Personally I have never seen Emacs autosav-
ing it, but who knows. Perhaps the contents of these files could give
you some hint where they originate from ...
Sincerely,
Rainer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-05-23 8:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-05-23 3:09 [NEED HELP] How to find out weird thing caused Emacs auto save scratch buffer as lot of files Christopher M. Miles
2023-05-23 8:54 ` Dr Rainer Woitok [this message]
2023-05-23 9:46 ` Christopher M. Miles
2023-05-23 11:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-05-23 12:41 ` [SOLVED] " Christopher M. Miles
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