Emacs usually creates backup files(filename~) and autosave files(#filename#)
when you modify existing text files.
In my opinion, this behavior is not optimum for Dropbox folder because
- The Dropbox folder is already version controlled, so you don’t need backup copies
- Frequent writes to a remote folder result in waste of network bandwidth
These elisp configurations prevents Emacs from creating backup and autosave files
inside the Dropbox folder.
Don’t create backup files.
(setq backup-enable-predicate
(lambda (name)
(not (string-match "Dropbox" name))))
Create autosaves under /tmp/jgoamakf.
(setq auto-save-file-name-transforms '((".*/Dropbox/.*" "/tmp/jgoamakf/\\1" t)))
