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Handle Emacs Backups and Autosaves Better

May 28th, 2008 | Category: Links, Linux | Comment Feed

I finally got annoyed with all the damn #files# and files~.  Emacs users will know what I’m talking about.  Follow this guide on dealing with Emacs backups and autosaves to get them all to go into one directory.  Much better.

4 Comments so far

  1. Huckleberry Hart May 28th, 2008 7:39 am

    What the hell is Emac? I used to love EasyMac. But I don’t think that is what you are talking about.

  2. Alex Loddengaard May 28th, 2008 7:53 am

    Unix text editor. Check it:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emacs

  3. hashbrown May 28th, 2008 7:59 pm

    Vim all the way!

  4. Alex Loddengaard May 28th, 2008 8:01 pm

    Oh no … the infamous Vim vs. Emacs battle. I’m going to stay out of this one.

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