Permanence of strange .tex file

[Rich Shepard]

On Sat, 28 Aug 2021, Stephan Witt wrote:

> on quit LyX removes it’s temporary files and directories. This doesn’t
> happen on sudden death of LyX. The question now is: is /tmp the location
> for temporary files and directories?
>
> On MacOS it’s not /tmp if you don’t set the path explicitly to /tmp.

Stephan,

Yes, LyX has always stored temporary files in /tmp (appropriately enough)
which is a default directory in linux. And I've not had LyX crash in
decades; it's closed properly.

Rich