Ian Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > s> I've finally figured out what's creating these things, and now I'd > s> like to learn what I have to do to make emacs stop creating them. I > > Those are not backup files, but auto-save files (actually lists of > auto-save files). Does that help to solve the problem? > > I think they should normally be deleted once you exit emacs. Do you > exit in some unusual way, like breaking your telnet/ssh session > without shutting down Emacs?
Uhh, yeah. Drat. Logging out of X, as long as my buffers are saved, I don't bother shutting down emacs. Thanks, I'll try that. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt Spammers! http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling/autospam.html _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs