From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
Cc: 40802@debbugs.gnu.org, Brett Carter <brett@rdnzl.net>
Subject: bug#40802: Fwd: bug#40802: 26.3; back-directory-alist ignored
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2021 12:45:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fsuxn6pj.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmmn6qtMXi=TfrAKA_OHWMhzHi61mVkQnxOyh-5BwpJimA@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Tue, 24 Aug 2021 16:27:01 +0200")
Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
> Nope, sorry - I just mis-typed it in this email subject. My literal config is:
> (setq backup-directory-alist
> `((".*" . ,temporary-file-directory)))
> (setq auto-save-file-name-transforms
> `((".*" ,temporary-file-directory t)))
>
> I ran emacs with --no-init-file then set this config manually using
> eval-expression. I still observe autobackup files in my current
> directory. I also observed that temporary-file-directory exists and
> emacs is writing other types of files there.
I'm unable to reproduce this in Emacs 26.1 or Emacs 28 (I don't have
Emacs 26.3 here).
With this conf, all the backup files end up in /tmp/ with names like
-rw-r--r-- 1 larsi larsi 7 Aug 25 12:42 !home!larsi!tmp!foo~
as expected.
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-08-25 10:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-04-23 22:30 bug#40802: 26.3; back-directory-alist ignored Brett Carter
2020-04-25 9:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-04-25 13:43 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-08-10 16:06 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
[not found] ` <CALeEg3_dcLsUVLwR=jRgw1UWvJDWm=+VoJD=qagcikZehjqj1g@mail.gmail.com>
2021-08-24 14:27 ` bug#40802: Fwd: " Stefan Kangas
2021-08-25 10:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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