From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ian Zimmerman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: C-xC-b creates ~/.saves-[0-9]*-localhost.localdomain - how to turn it off? Date: 06 May 2005 21:30:45 -0700 Message-ID: <87ekcj8xoq.fsf@buug.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115440269 16143 80.91.229.2 (7 May 2005 04:31:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 04:31:09 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 07 06:31:05 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUGxS-0008KG-Sf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 06:30:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUH3f-0006xn-Hb for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 00:36:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DUH16-0005aM-JH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 00:34:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DUH0y-0005UD-6r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 00:34:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUH0w-0005RW-QA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 00:34:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [198.144.194.12] (helo=disorder.primate.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA:24) (Exim 4.34) id 1DUH39-0004WN-RR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 00:36:24 -0400 Original-Received: from disorder.primate.net (itz@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by disorder.primate.net (8.13.4/8.13.4/Debian-2) with ESMTP id j474UkJm028774 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 6 May 2005 21:30:46 -0700 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by disorder.primate.net (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id j474Uk2L028773 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 6 May 2005 21:30:46 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: disorder.primate.net: itz set sender to itz@buug.org using -f Original-Received: from itz by unicorn with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1DUGxh-0000wN-00; Fri, 06 May 2005 21:30:45 -0700 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Unicorn-Archive: yes In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.6 (disorder.primate.net [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 06 May 2005 21:30:46 -0700 (PDT) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:26392 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:26392 s> I've finally figured out what's creating these things, and now I'd s> like to learn what I have to do to make emacs stop creating them. I s> already have all the anti-backup commands I can think of in my s> ~/.emacs (eg.): s> (setq make-backup-files nil) s> but I must be missing something. Any ideas anyone? What else is s> there? Thanks. Those are not backup files, but auto-save files (actually lists of auto-save files). Does that help to solve the problem? I think they should normally be deleted once you exit emacs. Do you exit in some unusual way, like breaking your telnet/ssh session without shutting down Emacs? -- Optimist: We're only two weeks behind schedule. Pessimist: The schedule is a whole two weeks ahead of us.