On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 07:17:29 -0700
Lynn David Newton <
lynn.newton@cox.net> wrote:
>
> If the directory is actually called .autosave (note the
> dot prefix), did you experiment with emacs or xemacs
> one time? Both will create that directory.
[...]
Strange, how come emacs works differently for me?
Emacs creates .#some_open_file# for an open file that I'm editing which it can recover in case of a crash and emacs also creates a backup file, such as some_file~ which is my previous editing session. I found no reference to an .autosave directory in the manual.
One nice feature of auto-saving in emacs is that when you make a large edit to the buffer auto-saving is temporarily disabled giving you a chance to undo an accidental delete of a large block of text.
Details about auto-saving and backup files in emacs can be found here.
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/
Dennisk
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