Re: Is it possible to prevent emacs auto saving the filename~?

[tyler <tyler.smith@mail.mcgill.ca>]

明覺 <shi.minjue@gmail.com> writes:

> I know that emacs auto save a file named filename~ when I modified the
> file filename, but I do not like the autosaved copy, could i stop this
> function? thanks

Set auto-save-default to nil, as explained in the Emacs manual:

(info "(emacs)Auto Save Control")

Adding

(setq auto-save-default nil)

to your .emacs will do this automatically.

Cheers,

Tyler

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