I always disable those auto-backup-files features in any editor I use. Never understood why that was the default-on for so many editors.

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k_bx 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I do too, it’s just that I’ve realised that emacs-nox is awesome container / vm editor out of the box, this backup thing is the only most annoying part (and Ubuntu 22.04 emacs packages expired cert)

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bandrami an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It made more sense when running editors over tenuous telnet connections was more common

	▲	dhosek 35 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The kids really have no idea how tenuous computing in general was back in the olden days. Some of the stability issues in the 20th century translated to modern systems would be akin to black smoke coming out of your computer if you happened to have the wrong two programs running at the same time.

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imiric an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

It can be handy. It gives you an additional safety net on top of the VCS that runs automatically in the background. It doesn't take much to configure it to your liking, e.g. [1].

[1]: https://gist.github.com/imiric/812398910c59cf00ab43d9172fe42...