.gitignore regex for emacs temporary files

Question

I\'m trying to .gitignore emacs temporary/autosave files. I\'m using...

\\.\\#.*

in my .gitignore.

But git add -A run in

Answer 1

You can also instruct emacs to save the autosave files in a different directory altogether by setting the variable auto-save-file-name-transforms, I have this in my init file

(setq auto-save-file-name-transforms
          `((".*" ,(concat user-emacs-directory "auto-save/") t))) 

This instructs emacs to store the auto-saves inside the auto-save folder in the user-emacs-directory (usually ~/.emacs.d).

To save backup files in a different directory set the variable backup-directory-alist, the following will save backup files inside backups folder in the user-emacs-directory

(setq backup-directory-alist
      `(("." . ,(expand-file-name
                 (concat user-emacs-directory "backups")))))