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NetMageSCWtoday at 2:39 PM1 replyview on HN

What happens when you edit multiple files from different folders with the same name?


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jlaroccotoday at 3:14 PM

I tell emacs to create all of the files in "~/.backups", and it names them using the full pathname with "/" replaced with "!". So "~/foo/bar.txt" -> "!home!username!foo!bar.txt~"