Comments on: gnu emacs backup files

By: Aaron Meurer

Aaron Meurer — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 00:43:33 +0000

I think you don’t want to use custom-set-variables. That’s used by customize, and it could get confused if it sees two of them. I like the solution at http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2020941/emacs-newbie-how-can-i-hide-the-buffer-files-that-emacs-creates better:

(defvar backup-dir (expand-file-name “~/.emacs.d/backup/”)) (defvar autosave-dir (expand-file-name “~/.emacs.d/autosave/”)) (setq backup-directory-alist (list (cons “.” backup-dir))) (setq auto-save-list-file-prefix autosave-dir) (setq auto-save-file-name-transforms `((“.” ,autosave-dir t)))

I like the tip about creating the directories, though.

By: willdye

willdye — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:56:26 +0000

Thank you for posting this information, including the 2011 update.

By: ryan

ryan — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 08:12:55 +0000

noam, david, thanks for suggesting auto-save-file-name-transforms! definitely a simpler way to do it. i’ve updated the article.

By: Noam

Noam — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 01:43:35 +0000

...and then I post a regexp that doesn't work, oops

(setq auto-save-file-name-transforms
      `(("\\`/?\\(?:[^/]+/\\)*\\([^/]+\\)\\'" "~/.emacs.d/autosaves/\\1" t)))

By: Noam

Noam — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 01:16:03 +0000

You could set auto-save-file-name-transforms instead of the big elisp chunk.

(setq
      auto-save-file-name-transforms
      `(("[^/]+\\'" "~/.emacs.d/autosaves/\\1" t)))

(in my previous post I used an unecessarily complicated regexp)

By: Mykola

Mykola — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:46:06 +0000

Thanks a lot. It made me calm :-)

@Memnon: google change peoples' habits :-)

By: Guest

Guest — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thanks a ton! that sure is helpful!

- Sandeep

By: traneHead

traneHead — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Thank you!!

By: Christian Betz

Christian Betz — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You rule!

By: Jacob

Jacob — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Finally, a script that makes this simple.

Thank you.