bug#40802: Fwd: bug#40802: 26.3; back-directory-alist ignored

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> Nope, sorry - I just mis-typed it in this email subject. My literal config is:
> (setq backup-directory-alist
>       `((".*" . ,temporary-file-directory)))
> (setq auto-save-file-name-transforms
>       `((".*" ,temporary-file-directory t)))
>
> I ran emacs with --no-init-file then set this config manually using
> eval-expression. I still observe autobackup files in my current
> directory. I also observed that temporary-file-directory exists and
> emacs is writing other types of files there.

I'm unable to reproduce this in Emacs 26.1 or Emacs 28 (I don't have
Emacs 26.3 here).

With this conf, all the backup files end up in /tmp/ with names like

  -rw-r--r--  1 larsi      larsi             7 Aug 25 12:42 !home!larsi!tmp!foo~

as expected.

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