Re: Hot to prevent emacs from generating ".#xxxx" files?

[s ticket]

>> Because when emacs exits abnormally, it may leave a lot of ".#xxx" files.
>> It may break some compiling as some compile tools just search all ".c" files
>> in the directory and complain "can't open .#xxx.c" ;
>
> That's exactly why you want them.  After a crash you can M-x
> recover-this-file and get you changes back.
Yes. But it's better if I can put them in a special directory like
backup files and auto-save files.






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