[Showstopper bug] Re: auto-save-directory-fallback vs. binary kits
Charles G Waldman <cgw(a)pgt.com> writes:
(defvar auto-save-directory-fallback (expand-file-name
"~/.autosave/")
The expansion of "~" seems to be getting done at compile-time rather
than run-time, so people who download my binary kit get stuck with my
value of "~".
In fact it is done at dump time.
How are people who build binary kits dealing with this issue?
They are not. This is an issue for all compiles of XEmacs. The dumpings
users dir is always used.
That whole part of auto-save.el is
broken. (See the mapc's that come after it). That load time
initialisation stuff should be moved to startup/init time.
[thinks and looks at autosave.el]
No: The expand file name must be ditched and auto-save-fixed-directory
should simply make sure the directory exist before writing.
l'll make a patch
jan