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Re: emacs in ~/.cache


From: Michael Albinus
Subject: Re: emacs in ~/.cache
Date: Sun, 13 Aug 2023 15:52:47 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13)

Colin Baxter <m43cap@yandex.com> writes:

Hi,

> I've noticed that emacs now puts a directory into ~/.cache. This is in
> Debian but I assume emacs in other systems are behave the same. I think
> that ~/.cache/emacs is fairly new, perhaps beginning emacs-28, but I am
> not certain.
>
> I have never seen ~/.cache/emacs populated with anything, so what is its
> purpose?

Tramp 2.7 (of Emacs 30) uses ~/.cache/emacs as temporary directory, if
possible. The reason are security considerations.

> Colin Baxter.

Best regards, Michael.



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