bug#40802: Fwd: bug#40802: 26.3; back-directory-alist ignored

[Stefan Kangas]

This bug was closed because of a lack of response.  Brett actually got
back to me in April 2020, but it seems like he didn't use "Reply to
all", so it never reached the bug tracker.  I have included his full
message below.

I'll leave it to you to decide if this means the bug should be re-opened or not.

---------- Forwarded message ---------
Från: Brett Carter <brett@rdnzl.net>
Date: tors 30 apr. 2020 kl 17:02
Subject: Re: bug#40802: 26.3; back-directory-alist ignored
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>


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.

-Brett

On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 9:43 AM Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> wrote:
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > > As of Emacs 26.3 on OSX is appears back-directory-alist is
>
> Is it possible this is because you misspelled backup-directory-alist?
>
> > > ignored. Auto-save files are no longer going to a tmpdir but are always
> > > saved in the current directory.
> > >
> > > I verified this by starting emacs with --no-init-file and setting the
> > > backup-directory-alist manually.
> >
> > I cannot reproduce this on my system, so it's probably either specific
> > to OSX or specific to your system.
>
> I can't reproduce this on my macOS machine, using "emacs -Q" and:
>
> (setq backup-directory-alist '(("." . "~/backups")))
>
> In GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin14.5.0, NS
> appkit-1348.17 Version 10.10.5 (Build 14F2511))
>  of 2019-09-02 built on builder10-10.porkrind.org
> Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.1561
>
> Best regards,
> Stefan Kangas