From: W. Trevor King <wking@drexel.edu>
Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 17:46:03 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: Keep the emacs autosave-list ~/.auto-save-list to avoid cluttering ~/.dotfiles
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Keep the emacs autosave-list ~/.auto-save-list to avoid cluttering ~/.dotfiles
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diff --git a/_emacs b/_emacs
index 34bc6cf..bd215f4 100644
--- a/_emacs
+++ b/_emacs
@@ -34,6 +34,13 @@
 (setq backup-directory-alist (quote ((".*" . "~/.backup"))))
 (defconst use-backup-dir t)	    ; Use backup directory
 
+; From http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/emacs/emacs_125.html
+; Emacs records interrupted sessions for later recovery in files named
+; `~/.emacs.d/auto-save-list/.saves-pid-hostname'. The
+; `~/.emacs.d/auto-save-list/.saves-' portion of these names comes
+; from the value of auto-save-list-file-prefix.
+(setq auto-save-list-file-prefix "~/.auto-save-list/.saves-")
+
 ; redefining the make-auto-save-file-name function in order to get
 ; autosave files sent to a single directory.  Note that this function
 ; looks first to determine if you have a ~/.autosave/ directory.  If