From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>
Subject: Re: long filename fools diff-backup?
Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 07:31:05 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87smnibu4m.fsf@jidanni.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E19rSnH-0005lj-3e@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard Stallman's message of "Mon, 25 Aug 2003 21:38:47 -0400")
RMS> but I can't guess what it is. Can you debug it?
I now believe maybe that if a .backups dir exists, diff-backup then
doesn't check for xxxx~ style backups. It thinks all backups are made
by emacs, and doesn't look for simpler backup file names made by other
programs... At least after loading my
http://jidanni.org/comp/emacs.txt
Perhaps try:
mkdir .backups
touch a a~
wget http://jidanni.org/comp/emacs.txt
emacs -l emacs.txt . #which requires backup-dir.el
put cursor on "a" and hit M-=
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-30 23:31 UTC|newest]
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2003-08-25 4:44 long filename fools diff-backup? Dan Jacobson
[not found] ` <E19rSnH-0005lj-3e@fencepost.gnu.org>
2003-08-30 23:31 ` Dan Jacobson [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.1327.1062294981.29551.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-09-02 17:00 ` Kevin Rodgers
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