Andy on Nostr: I think I give up on trying to tell #emacs where to create the auto-save directory. I ...

I think I give up on trying to tell #emacs where to create the auto-save directory.

I had though this would be clever at init:

(setq backup-directory-alist `((".*" . ,null-device)))

Then later I'd change it to something usable. Except I'm not clever, emacs knows it can't use that directory, so it dumps it to XDG_CONFIG_HOME anyway.

Nice...