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Re: Reconsider make-backup-files default value
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Martin Edström |
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Re: Reconsider make-backup-files default value |
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Mon, 16 Sep 2024 02:15:19 +0200 (CEST) |
> No other editors [2] are doing something like that by default;
Several do, e.g. LibreOffice, TextEdit... they just hide it. The equivalent of
having a backup-directory-alist configured to put it all inside ~/.emacs.d.
Interestingly, Emacs Prelude places it in /tmp, and Doom Emacs disables backups
[1], but in case the user re-enables them, it actually hashes the backup
filenames to make them shorter [2] but I don't like it since I rename files a
lot and the hashed names destroy my ability to find backups under an old name.
[1] https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs/blob/master/lisp/doom-editor.el#L94
[2] https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs/blob/master/lisp/doom-editor.el#L151
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