From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "s. keeling" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: C-xC-b creates ~/.saves-[0-9]*-localhost.localdomain - how to turn it off? Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 16:55:25 GMT Message-ID: References: Reply-To: keeling@spots.ab.ca NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115484770 20760 80.91.229.2 (7 May 2005 16:52:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 16:52:50 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 07 18:52:46 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUSX6-0003SZ-NK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 18:52:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUSf3-0005rl-VM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 13:00:18 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed2.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!clgrps12.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-UCE: I forward UCE/spam with ALL headers to abuse@your.isp UNREAD! X-UCE2: Wow, are spammers ever stoopid! X-PGP-Key: GPG key: http://keyserver.noreply.org:11371/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x48EE77B1AC94E4B7 X-WebTV-Stationery: Standard; BGColor=black; TextColor=black User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.0 (Linux) Original-Lines: 21 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.115.174.97 Original-X-Trace: clgrps12 1115484925 209.115.174.97 (Sat, 07 May 2005 10:55:25 MDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 10:55:25 MDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:130752 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:26406 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:26406 Ian Zimmerman : > > 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 > > 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? Uhh, yeah. Drat. Logging out of X, as long as my buffers are saved, I don't bother shutting down emacs. Thanks, I'll try that. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt Spammers! http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling/autospam.html