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Re: [NEED HELP] How to find out weird thing caused Emacs auto save scrat


From: Dr Rainer Woitok
Subject: Re: [NEED HELP] How to find out weird thing caused Emacs auto save scratch buffer as lot of files
Date: Tue, 23 May 2023 10:54:59 +0200

Christopher,

On Tuesday, 2023-05-23 11:09:28 +0800, you wrote:

> Recently I found in my user home directory, has lot of files named like:
> ...
> /Users/stardiviner/#%2Ascratch%2A#UKK9EL#

Not a real solution, but:

The ASCII character at 0x2a is "*".   And a running Emacs definitely has
a buffer "*scratch*" open.   Personally I have never seen Emacs autosav-
ing it, but who knows.   Perhaps the contents  of these files could give
you some hint where they originate from ...

Sincerely,
  Rainer



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