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tomas |
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Re: volatile /tmp [was: how to force auto-save of buffers not visiting files, right now?] |
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Sun, 20 Mar 2022 12:13:15 +0100 |
On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 11:36:05AM +0100, hw wrote:
> On Sun, 2022-03-20 at 09:05 +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 08:29:55AM +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > > Apprently that leads to puttting some files into /tmp, and I would
> > > > consider it a bug to put auto-save files into /tmp because doing that
> > > > totally defeats the auto-saving because /tmp is volatile.
> >
> > Note that the convention on Gnu/Linux is to use /var/tmp for things
> > you want to persist across reboots. So perhaps just changing the
> > replacement value might make you happy.
>
> Well, I have set `tramp-auto-save-directory' to a suitable value, so
> it doesn't really matter.
>
> Shouldn't GNU Emacs use this GNU convention of using /var/tmp/ when
> it's all GNU?
That still depends on whether people want auto-saves to persist
reboots. There doesn't seem to be a majority for it, much less a
consensus.
So either change it for yourself (and document what you did, to
help others in your situation) or start convincing people if you
want that to become a more general default :-)
Cheers
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- Re: how to force auto-save of buffers not visiting files, right now?, Michael Heerdegen, 2022/03/18
- Re: how to force auto-save of buffers not visiting files, right now?, hw, 2022/03/18
- Re: how to force auto-save of buffers not visiting files, right now?, Michael Heerdegen, 2022/03/18
- Re: how to force auto-save of buffers not visiting files, right now?, hw, 2022/03/19
- Re: how to force auto-save of buffers not visiting files, right now?, Michael Albinus, 2022/03/19
- Re: how to force auto-save of buffers not visiting files, right now?, hw, 2022/03/20
- Re: how to force auto-save of buffers not visiting files, right now?, tomas, 2022/03/20
- volatile /tmp [was: how to force auto-save of buffers not visiting files, right now?], tomas, 2022/03/20
- Re: volatile /tmp [was: how to force auto-save of buffers not visiting files, right now?], hw, 2022/03/20
- Re: volatile /tmp [was: how to force auto-save of buffers not visiting files, right now?],
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- Re: volatile /tmp [was: how to force auto-save of buffers not visiting files, right now?], hw, 2022/03/20
- Re: volatile /tmp [was: how to force auto-save of buffers not visiting files, right now?], tomas, 2022/03/21
- Re: volatile /tmp [was: how to force auto-save of buffers not visiting files, right now?], Michael Albinus, 2022/03/21
- Re: how to force auto-save of buffers not visiting files, right now?, Michael Albinus, 2022/03/20
- Re: how to force auto-save of buffers not visiting files, right now?, tomas, 2022/03/20
- Re: how to force auto-save of buffers not visiting files, right now?, hw, 2022/03/20
- Re: how to force auto-save of buffers not visiting files, right now?, tomas, 2022/03/20
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