From: Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 19:41:15 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (auto-save-list-file-prefix): New variable.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-19.34~2743
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2e05d0632539ec68e9e2139158cb1b6c91a94a5e;p=emacs.git

(auto-save-list-file-prefix): New variable.
(normal-top-level): Use it.
---

diff --git a/lisp/startup.el b/lisp/startup.el
index d7f7f55b5cb..772d619f889 100644
--- a/lisp/startup.el
+++ b/lisp/startup.el
@@ -225,6 +225,11 @@ specified by the LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LANG environment variables.")
 (defvar user-mail-address nil
   "*Full mailing address of this user.")
 
+(defvar auto-save-list-file-prefix "~/.saves-"
+  "Prefix for generating auto-save-list-file-name.
+Emacs's pid and the system name will be appended to
+this prefix to create a unique file name.")
+
 (defvar init-file-debug nil)
 
 (defvar init-file-had-error nil)
@@ -274,10 +279,11 @@ specified by the LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE and LANG environment variables.")
 				    (or mail-host-address
 					(system-name))))
     ;; Specify the file for recording all the auto save files of this session.
-    ;; This is used by multiple-recover.
+    ;; This is used by recover-session.
     (setq auto-save-list-file-name
 	  (expand-file-name
-	   (format "~/.saves-%d-%s"
+	   (format "%s%d-%s"
+		   auto-save-list-file-prefix
 		   (emacs-pid)
 		   (system-name))))
     (let ((menubar-bindings-done nil))