Re: bad regexp in auto-save-file-name-transforms

[Stefan Monnier]

> But a visual inspection shows that you only edited the regexp in one
> file.  You've left it unchanged in lisp/startup.el.  I don't

Duh!  Should be fixed now.

> understand why we have the same value defined in 2 different files,
> but I found that I had to change it in both places to get the change
> to work for me.

The "reason" is that the variable is created/initialized before the
dump step of Emacs's build process, so its initial value does not take into
account the fact that temporary-file-directory might be different when
we actually run Emacs.  So we reset the value at each Emacs startup.

There's probably a better way to do that, but several variables go through
the same routine, because we haven't found such a better way yet.


        Stefan