Re: autosave/backup file problem

[Barry Margolin]

In article <mailman.2895.1339792377.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 Jannis <bt_jannis@yahoo.de> wrote:

> Hi emacs users,
> 
> 
> i have the problem that emacs creates
> 
> .#filename.txt
> 
> files in the directory file while working on a file. These files create 
> problems when I want to automatically create Software packages of the 
> parent folder.
> 
> Is there any way to tell emacs to create these files in a different 
> location?
> 
> 
> I have put the following in my .emacs file but it seems to not change 
> the behaviour of the above mentioned files:
> 
> 
> ;; Put autosave files (ie #foo#) and backup files (ie foo~) in ~/.emacs.d/.
> (custom-set-variables
>    '(auto-save-file-name-transforms '((".*" "~/.emacs.d/autosaves/\\1" t)))
>    '(backup-directory-alist '((".*" . "~/.emacs.d/backups/"))))

Two problems:

1. custom-set-variables doesn't evaluate the value part of each argument 
list, so you shouldn't have the inner quotes.

2. Your regexp for auto-save-file-name-transforms doesn't contain any 
\\(...\\), so there's nothing for \\1 to be replaced with.  Use \\& to 
substitute the entire matched string, or write a more complex regular 
expression where \\1 picks up just the filename part of the pathname.

> 
> 
> Thanks a lot for your help!
> 
> Jannis

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
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