auto-save-name: preference variable

Default value: "%p#%b%e.asv#"

When want-auto-save is nonzero, Epsilon regularly saves a copy of each unsaved file. This variable contains a template which determines how Epsilon chooses the file name for the autosaved file. Epsilon substitutes pieces of the original file name for codes in the template, as follows (examples are for the file c:\dos\read.me):

%p: The original file's path (c:\dos\).
%b: The base part of the original file name (read).
%e: The extension of the original file name (.me).
%f: The full name of the original file (c:\dos\read.me).
%r: The name of the file relative to the current directory. (read.me if the current directory is c:\dos, dos\read.me if the current directory is c:\, otherwise c:\dos\read.me).
%x: The full pathname of the directory containing the Epsilon executable.
%X: The full pathname of the directory containing the Epsilon executable, after converting all Windows long file names to their equivalent short name aliases.

By default, Epsilon writes to a file in the same directory but with a # character before the name and .asv# after it. If you change this to %f (to auto-save to the original file name) or some other setting that could name a file you want to keep, be sure to set appropriate bits in the want-auto-save variable to disable automatic deletion of auto-save files.

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