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 16:49:27 +0200 Message-ID: <20181004144927.GA7000@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="gKMricLos+KVdGMg" X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1538664479 25810 195.159.176.226 (4 Oct 2018 14:47:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 14:47:59 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 04 16:47:55 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 1g84uu-0006Yx-W2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2018 16:47:53 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56148 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g84x0-0001zg-Qs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2018 10:50:02 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37762) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g84wW-0001zV-Rv for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2018 10:49:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g84wT-0001Tt-OJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2018 10:49:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.tuxteam.de ([5.199.139.25]:48160) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g84wT-0001Sz-Dr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2018 10:49:29 -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:To:Date; bh=50IN4PJbZh0YljgWJ4Mc6vphzKolJ+kwA2Pm8L+d9QU=; b=sLTeOLZv9frR0o+P/3pDKYuhTz5ycZv0aV9efv+frkMMPNB91Htg8Z29gf3a3/yP2SFxPTa72rIVwWeNdHURd5Kl2/UsSbl1NQJ8a8ieJUPQCx2t9uhKt8j7V13leItZxHbMCOFtuarZoc/cke83XztxNc20apS8o/EyRhxJFK6BIOJZX3h8ywOzweVZov6KQdQ76X31CO5H1n7CkfER8fHrmImcJYE1dCGzbtLcIDd6LdkVCAabCQKBliU6yDLi3TG1eazg2atJ5volEs48ycTFNE9IG5allOqZfEmErOT09RIBsnmHFTT8xWtlBzTygC/wYwTczVn3G388rgSN4g==; Original-Received: from tomas by mail.tuxteam.de with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1g84wR-0001rC-V6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2018 16:49:27 +0200 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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:118117 Archived-At: --gKMricLos+KVdGMg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. >=20 > Indeed. >=20 > > They are supposed to survive the session and give you a "previous > > state" to fall back to should your session do a catastrophic thing. >=20 > 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 >=20 > 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`). >=20 > The autosave files have names of the form #foo# Oh. Thanks for the clarification... Cheers -- t --gKMricLos+KVdGMg Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlu2KHcACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbkaACeIYCcr1a88GbIpjy9lohrYprY h+0AnitetVFuM+pZxw29kAwy4m7Z3TAR =9FV4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --gKMricLos+KVdGMg--