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From: Glenn Morris <gmorris+news@ast.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: specifying the location of auto-save files
Date: Sat, 26 Feb 2005 11:42:24 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <y47jkvv97j.fsf@xpc14.ast.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ekf4ebu3.fsf@ellen.trollope.org

Michael Powe wrote:

> What controls the location into which auto-save files (#test.c#, e.g.)
> are placed?
[...]
> The reason is, I'm having a problem with an installed version of 21.3
> on gentoo linux.  It is trying to save to a non-existent directory
> when I am editing files remotely.

auto-save-file-name-transforms

Buggy in 21.3 for remote files, IIRC, but fixed in CVS (and also added
to the relevant section of the manual).

      reply	other threads:[~2005-02-26 11:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-25 18:25 specifying the location of auto-save files Michael Powe
2005-02-26 11:42 ` Glenn Morris [this message]

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