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		mksybr 29 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Two Years of Emacs Solo It should default to a single location maybe a XDG directory instead of polluting every directory

NetMageSCW 29 days ago [–]

What happens when you edit multiple files from different folders with the same name?

jlarocco 29 days ago | [–]

I tell emacs to create all of the files in "~/.backups", and it names them using the full pathname with "/" replaced with "!". So "~/foo/bar.txt" -> "!home!username!foo!bar.txt~"

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