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