Re: temporary-file-directory

Lars> Emacs has temporary-file-directory, which defaults to "/tmp/". It's a Lars> nice variable to have, since all other temp dir variables can use that Lars> variable as the default value, so I think XEmacs should have it as well. Seems reasonable. Here's the trivial untested patch: 1998-12-21 Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; * files.el (temporary-file-directory): Add new variable, compatible with FSF Emacs 20.3 --- etc/NEWS.old +++ etc/NEWS ＠＠ -121,6 +121,11 ＠＠ An extra bonus is that checking for circularities is not just friendlier, but actually faster than checking for quit. +** The new variable temporary-file-directory specifies the directory +to use for creating temporary files. The default value is determined +in a reasonable way for your operating system; on Unix systems it is +based on the TMP and TMPDIR environment variables. +  * Changes in XEmacs 21.0 ======================== --- lisp/files.el.old +++ lisp/files.el ＠＠ -354,6 +354,14 ＠＠ (defalias 'lock-buffer 'ignore)) (or (fboundp 'unlock-buffer) (defalias 'unlock-buffer 'ignore)) + +(defvar temporary-file-directory + (file-name-as-directory + (if (memq system-type '(ms-dos windows-nt)) + (or (getenv "TEMP") (getenv "TMPDIR") (getenv "TMP") "c:/temp") + (or (getenv "TMPDIR") (getenv "TMP") (getenv "TEMP") "/tmp"))) + "The directory for writing temporary files.") +  ;;FSFmacs bastardized ange-ftp cruft ;; This hook function provides support for ange-ftp host name