bug#40802: 26.3; back-directory-alist ignored

[Stefan Kangas]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

> > As of Emacs 26.3 on OSX is appears back-directory-alist is

Is it possible this is because you misspelled backup-directory-alist?

> > ignored. Auto-save files are no longer going to a tmpdir but are always
> > saved in the current directory.
> >
> > I verified this by starting emacs with --no-init-file and setting the
> > backup-directory-alist manually.
>
> I cannot reproduce this on my system, so it's probably either specific
> to OSX or specific to your system.

I can't reproduce this on my macOS machine, using "emacs -Q" and:

(setq backup-directory-alist '(("." . "~/backups")))

In GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin14.5.0, NS
appkit-1348.17 Version 10.10.5 (Build 14F2511))
 of 2019-09-02 built on builder10-10.porkrind.org
Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.1561

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas