[878] in NetBSD-Development
Re: emacs autosave
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Sat Jul 15 11:40:40 1995
Date: Sat, 15 Jul 1995 11:40:07 -0400
To: bdrosen@MIT.EDU
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[876] in NetBSD-Development"
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
> It appears that the emacs on the system packs is set up to
> autosave to /usr/tmp.
When checking the values of variables in emacs, I suggest you
either use M-x describe variable (C-h v), or some other method
of querying the interpreter for the value. This avoids confusion and
guessing.
> /afs/sipb/system/i386_nbsd1/usr/athena/lib/emacs/19.28/lisp/site-init.el
> ......
>
> ; Athena auto-save customizations
>
> (defconst auto-save-main-directory
> "/usr/tmp/"
> "The root of the auto-save directory; nil means use old style.")
Indeed. However site-init is overridden at run-time by default.el,
which corrects that error (it's not feasable to modify site-init
without redumping emacs, which seems a waste of time). It should be
noted that due to a decision on someone's part (not the way I would
have done it...), default.el resides in
/usr/athena/lib/emacs/site-lisp rather than the version-specific lisp
subdirectory.
--jhawk
