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I have placed my autosave and backup files in a single directory .emacs-saves.
Backup files appear as ~foo
Autosave files appear as #foo#
But Emacs seems to also generate .#foo in the current directory whenever a change is made in a buffer.
What's the purpose of these files and is there a way to specify their default directory?
These are lock files. See Save lock-files to a directory instead of disabling them
If you are accessing files remotely (think tramp or nfs) then it is a lot simpler to have the lock files in the same directory as the file being edited.
