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Tzu ng
Tzu ng

Reputation: 9244

Weird generated files from Emacs

I find that there are a lot of files like the one below generated by Emacs. What are those files ? And is there anyone that I can put them in one place and stop hanging around in the project ?

app/helpers/#application_helper.rb#

Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 242

Answers (1)

user519736
user519736

Reputation:

These files are automatically saved versions of files edited by Emacs. You can tell Emacs to put all auto-save files and all backup files (those ending on ~) in one place by adding this to your .emacs or .emacs.d/init.el file:

(setq backup-directory-alist
      `((".*" . ,(expand-file-name
             (concat user-emacs-directory "backups"))))
(setq auto-save-file-name-transforms
      `((".*" ,(expand-file-name
             (concat user-emacs-directory "backups") t)))

This will set the directory to be ~/.emacs.d/backups/. Another common thing to do is setting the directory to the temp directory:

(setq backup-directory-alist
      `((".*" . ,temporary-file-directory)))
(setq auto-save-file-name-transforms
      `((".*" ,temporary-file-directory t)))

Alternatively, you could completely disable auto-saving but this is not recommended.

EDIT: I just found this related question with lots of advice on how to configure this behaviour: How do I control how Emacs makes backup files?

Upvotes: 2

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