Subject: Re: bug#14691: Acknowledgement (24.3; auto-save-list)

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 21:10:26 -0400

João Guerra wrote:

> Minimal working .emacs example

Thanks. My minimal example would be:

  (setq auto-save-list-file-name "~/SAVE")

> (defconst backups-dir "~/.emacs.d/backups/")

Use (expand-file-name "~/.emacs.d/backups/") and it should work.

The issue is that we use

   unlink (SSDATA (Vauto_save_list_file_name));

and unlink does not understand the "~" construct.