Re: volatile /tmp [was: how to force auto-save of buffers not visiting files, right now?]

[hw]

On Sun, 2022-03-20 at 09:05 +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2022 at 08:29:55AM +0100, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > Apprently that leads to puttting some files into /tmp, and I would
> > > consider it a bug to put auto-save files into /tmp because doing that
> > > totally defeats the auto-saving because /tmp is volatile.
> 
> Note that the convention on Gnu/Linux is to use /var/tmp for things
> you want to persist across reboots. So perhaps just changing the
> replacement value might make you happy.

Well, I have set `tramp-auto-save-directory' to a suitable value, so
it doesn't really matter.

Shouldn't GNU Emacs use this GNU convention of using /var/tmp/ when
it's all GNU?