Re: Superflous Emacs backup files
On Aug 25 2001, Martin Schulze wrote:
> I noticed that GNU Emacs seems to create tons of files like
> .saves-16657-finlandia.Infodrom.North.DE~ in $HOME which don't get
> removed. What's the way to prevent this?
In my experience, I have seen those files appear only when I
close emacs in "wrong" ways like killing emacs, pressing
C-A-BS on X with an emacs open (which is like killing it) etc.
Exiting emacs with C-x C-s never seems to leave those files
around.
Hope this helps, Roger...
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Rogério Brito - rbrito@ime.usp.br - http://www.ime.usp.br/~rbrito/
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