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authorSean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>2021-08-19 16:48:59 -0700
committerSean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name>2021-08-19 16:48:59 -0700
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@@ -481,6 +481,12 @@ all directory separators were changed to @samp{!} to prevent clashes.
(This will not work correctly if your filesystem truncates the
resulting name.)
+If @var{uniquify} is one of the members of
+@code{secure-hash-algorithms}, Emacs constructs the nondirectory part
+of the auto-save file name by applying that @code{secure-hash} to the
+buffer file name. This avoids any risk of excessively long file
+names.
+
All the transforms in the list are tried, in the order they are listed.
When one transform applies, its result is final;
no further transforms are tried.