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Re: how to force auto-save of buffers not visiting files, right now?


From: Emanuel Berg
Subject: Re: how to force auto-save of buffers not visiting files, right now?
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2022 08:34:46 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

hw wrote:

>> Why not just use normal backup files?
>
> Because I would need to delete them eventually, and IIRC,
> tramp doesn't necessarily delete them.

I personally have

  (setq make-backup-files nil)

but for the record you don't "need" to delete anything and
especially not text or source files.

Use this command:

$ du -hc ~/**/*~ | awk '/total/{print $1}'

To find out how much space your backups really take.

Nothing, right?

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