Re: emacs in ~/.cache

[Colin Baxter]

>>>>> Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> writes:

    > 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.

I have

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(setq tramp-auto-save-directory "$HOME/.emacs.d/tmp")
(setq temporary-file-directory "$HOME/.emacs.d/tmp")

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Presumably that's ok, as far as tramp is concerned?

Colin.