From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Powe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: specifying the location of auto-save files Date: 25 Feb 2005 13:25:24 -0500 Organization: The Hospice of the Mind Message-ID: <87ekf4ebu3.fsf@ellen.trollope.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1109356988 30385 80.91.229.2 (25 Feb 2005 18:43:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 18:43:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 25 19:43:08 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D4kQA-0007EO-P0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 19:42:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D4khy-0002pI-5d for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:01:02 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!pln-e!spln!rex!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!news1 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 26 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p-378.newsdawg.com X-PGP: http://www.trollope.org/pgp.txt X-Home-Page: http://www.trollope.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:128810 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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 X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24350 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24350 What controls the location into which auto-save files (#test.c#, e.g.) are placed? Is there a variable I can set to specify this location? I can't find in the manual where this is even discussed. It discusses the naming convention for the files and how to change that but not where they are placed. The reason is, I'm having a problem with an installed version of 21.3 on gentoo linux. It is trying to save to a non-existent directory when I am editing files remotely. (Normally, of course, it auto-saves into my home directory.) If I forget to turn off auto-save in these circumstances, it will take me several minutes to get control of the editor again to turn it off. I've grepped all the .el files and I don't find any reference to this directory. I'm guessing it was hardcoded into the binary accidently but I'd like to override that setting if possible. Thanks. mp -- Michael Powe michael@trollope.org Naugatuck CT USA Liberal: 1. Not limited to or by established, orthodox, or authoritarian attitudes, views or dogmas; free from bigotry. 2. Favoring proposals for reform, open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others; broad-minded.