Teach Emacs to Keep Your Folders Clean

How to configure Emacs to prevent temporary, backup, and auto-save files from cluttering your directories using the no-littering package.

In this video, we'll learn how to keep Emacs from cluttering up folders with temporary files it creates for backups, auto save information, and the configuration stored by other packages like Projectile and lsp-mode. First we'll learn the necessary variables you will want to set to do this yourself and then we'll try a community package called no-littering that will do a lot of the work for you! Check out the configuration from this video here: github.com/daviwil/emacs-from-scratch/blob/a57d99ba80276926a… The show notes can be found here: github.com/daviwil/emacs-from-scratch/blob/master/show-notes… My Emacs configuration: github.com/daviwil/dotfiles/blob/master/Emacs.org If you enjoy this series, please consider becoming a sponsor on GitHub or Patreon: - github.com/sponsors/daviwil - patreon.com/SystemCrafters You can also leave a tip via PayPal: paypal.me/daviwil Follow me on Twitter for more Emacs content! twitter.com/SystemCrafters Chat with the System Crafters community on Discord: discord.gg/yVD8Gx6 Intro music: Coriolis Effect by logos feat. stefsax, licensed CC-BY ccmixter.org/files/mseq/26296