From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: How to disable auto save on Emacs 26.1
Date: Thu, 04 Oct 2018 09:10:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvlg7d3lqr.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1698.1538651613.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 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
(they're supposed to hold the state of the file before the last time you
edited it with Emacs).
> 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#
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-04 13:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-03 13:10 How to disable auto save on Emacs 26.1 Tom Wallenfang
2018-10-03 13:34 ` Martin Šlouf
2018-10-03 13:55 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.1669.1538575056.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-10-03 14:16 ` Tom Wallenfang
2018-10-04 11:04 ` tomas
2018-10-04 12:55 ` Skip Montanaro
2018-10-04 14:47 ` Van L
2018-10-06 11:34 ` Fossil [Was: Re: How to disable auto save on Emacs 26.1] Garreau, Alexandre
2018-10-06 14:32 ` Van L
2018-10-06 19:17 ` tomas
2018-10-04 17:21 ` How to disable auto save on Emacs 26.1 Marcin Borkowski
2018-10-06 6:24 ` Marcin Borkowski
[not found] ` <mailman.1701.1538657386.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-10-05 18:04 ` James K. Lowden
[not found] ` <mailman.1698.1538651613.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-10-04 13:10 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2018-10-04 14:49 ` tomas
2018-10-04 13:44 ` Tom Wallenfang
[not found] ` <mailman.1668.1538573687.1284.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-10-03 14:19 ` Tom Wallenfang
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