From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to disable auto save on Emacs 26.1 Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 13:04:46 +0200 Message-ID: <20181004110446.GA31656@tuxteam.de> References: <87zhvvqipx.fsf@wallenfang.de> <87murv5d4q.fsf@wallenfang.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1538651634 25776 195.159.176.226 (4 Oct 2018 11:13:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 11:13:54 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Tom Wallenfang Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 04 13:13:50 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g81Zm-0006bw-9G for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2018 13:13:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55053 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g81bs-0006Mn-PV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2018 07:16:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57520) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g81ZO-0004Oj-6F for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2018 07:13:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g81R8-00013K-QO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2018 07:04:59 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.tuxteam.de ([5.199.139.25]:47695) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g81R8-0000Yw-CE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2018 07:04:54 -0400 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tuxteam.de; s=mail; h=From:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:Date; bh=5ILBK36CRn5i3hurNwpExPcVTtgVOCnqP+fbWs3YtMM=; b=c+kb9GQTQxlo19Up74/gpLInR6PexbzsIjdd5tshUNkI/+8GcCAKtpQDhN2X2B5c646NXC/HpgfoqukUdNXc1pB/aS6C4m2fGLybF7zrlOqGUtW+RWJdWR2hVi+qTKjZcBQVO+iQNG1/W2FJDnlB5ZcsC9y2TbfkR9Tg9oo3uowOW2bhfspY4JxzzGDBap3lwGNSYZHf+ybi7aPoq+PkNZeQl617FvKJUqDwax8G1SWDcZ9w7DZB0LY4i9MgNzXBGfMyg0rGRPQU9wFwTn2jSNWJS/8vgR0LHNM544YCQwXZna4y5NDhG2TQq4eRarIk3Ljb3tRgq2nTMo2WCJFQlQ==; Original-Received: from tomas by mail.tuxteam.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1g81R0-0008Qz-Ra; Thu, 04 Oct 2018 13:04:46 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87murv5d4q.fsf@wallenfang.de> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 5.199.139.25 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:118110 Archived-At: --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 04:16:37PM +0200, Tom Wallenfang wrote: > > Could you describe exactly what you "have been seeing" that made you > > conclude that "the autosave feature is activated again"? > When I edited the Makefile, saved and looked at the filesystem, there > was Makefile~ which I don't want. Seems Stefan's crystal ball is working perfectly (as almost always). The files with the tilde at the end are (typically) backup files. They are supposed to survive the session and give you a "previous state" to fall back to should your session do a catastrophic thing. The "auto save" file name would rather look like ".#Makefile", and the file strives to contain the most current buffer status. In case of a (Emacs or system) crash, you can thus recover the most recent edits. Note that this file is supposed to be ephemeral: if all ends well, you won't see it. So it seems you want to configure backup, described in info node "Backup Files". If your concern is file system clutter, better leave auto-save alone. It's not going to clutter your file system (unless something else is going horribly wrong). As for backup, you can disable it or even teach it to use one directory for all backups (I have typically something beneath my ~/.emacs.d). Cheers -- tom=C3=A1s --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlu1884ACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbogwCdERrg97yntlxNxfu2W8OTEcmZ qE4An1RUs2woJ3SEaYw5olOQ6HOYGAhx =UIJV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3V7upXqbjpZ4EhLz--