From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to disable auto save on Emacs 26.1
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 16:49:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181004144927.GA7000@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvlg7d3lqr.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org>
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On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 09:10:27AM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > The files with the tilde at the end are (typically) backup files.
>
> Indeed.
>
> > They are supposed to survive the session and give you a "previous
> > state" to fall back to should your session do a catastrophic thing.
>
> No, they're not meant to handle crashes but rather pilot errors
Correct. Actually that was what I was trying to say (but didn't manage).
You delete (by mistake) the whole thing. Then save. Oops. That kind of
stuff.
> > The "auto save" file name would rather look like ".#Makefile", and the
>
> No, the .#foo "files" are the symlinks used as "lock files" to indicate
> that the file is being edited by an Emacs session (can be disabled by
> setting `create-lockfiles`).
>
> The autosave files have names of the form #foo#
Oh. Thanks for the clarification...
Cheers
-- t
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Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-03 13:10 How to disable auto save on Emacs 26.1 Tom Wallenfang
2018-10-03 13:34 ` Martin Šlouf
2018-10-03 13:55 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.1669.1538575056.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-10-03 14:16 ` Tom Wallenfang
2018-10-04 11:04 ` tomas
2018-10-04 12:55 ` Skip Montanaro
2018-10-04 14:47 ` Van L
2018-10-06 11:34 ` Fossil [Was: Re: How to disable auto save on Emacs 26.1] Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-06 14:32 ` Van L
2018-10-06 19:17 ` tomas
2018-10-04 17:21 ` How to disable auto save on Emacs 26.1 Marcin Borkowski
2018-10-06 6:24 ` Marcin Borkowski
[not found] ` <mailman.1701.1538657386.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-10-05 18:04 ` James K. Lowden
[not found] ` <mailman.1698.1538651613.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-10-04 13:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-10-04 14:49 ` tomas [this message]
2018-10-04 13:44 ` Tom Wallenfang
[not found] ` <mailman.1668.1538573687.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-10-03 14:19 ` Tom Wallenfang
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