Summer Emacs <summerem...@summerstar.me> writes: > 3) In one of the headers, it looked something like this: > * C-c C-c on [/] to update done items in todo list. > > That [/] just like that was creating a backup file on every save named > .#emacshelp.org# —> summer@summer.local.23434:882343 (those are made up > numbers but it was always random and looked something like that in the ls -la > command in terminal.)
Saving .#emacshelp.org# backup files is controlled by your configuration - it is the default Emacs behaviour to save them. > Since I regularly add notes to my file, I also use Magit to save a backup > copy (M-x g). But whenever I did that, it would ask if I wanted to save > emacshelp.org. Obviously it was being affected by the backup file (which was > never open in a buffer, it just was “there” in the directory). > > An example of Magit interaction for adding/committing changes to that file > would look something like this: (from emacshelp.org file) > > 1) M-x g > 2) Minibuffer: Do you want to save emacshelp.org? Y/n/etc… > 3) s > 4) Minibuffer: Do you want to save emacshelp.org? Y/n/etc… > 5) c c > 6) Minibuffer: Do you want to save emacshelp.org? Y/n/etc… > ... This is abnormal. > You get the idea. Every single thing I did in Magit would ask me this. My > file (the original - emacshelp.org) was saved with C-x C-s AND even C-x s to > save all files. But it didn’t matter how I answered that question, it would > keep asking it no matter what. No matter what I did, it kept asking me that > question, over and over and over again. Because of that “backup” file. > > Note: This is behaviour which *only* happened with this single file, not with > any other file I use. My suspicion that it is triggered by some kind of strange `after-save-hook' in your config. > Finally, putting = = around [/] in my notes to produce: =[/]= escaped that > behaviour. It no longer does that. It took me an hour of rebuilding my file > line by line to figure out *why* this was happening, but that was the line > and that was the exact problem. [/] in Org is called statistics cookie and some parts of Org may alter it to refresh TODO/checkbox statistics. See "5.5 Breaking Down Tasks into Subtasks". However, I do not see why this should happen _after_ save, unless something in your config is triggering the update. Without more information, I cannot provide more assistance unfortunately. I also do not see how we can help on Org side as the problem _appears_ to be with your personal config. -- Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, Org mode contributor, Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>