From: Luc Teirlinck <teirllm@dms.auburn.edu>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, han@mijncomputer.nl
Subject: Re: backup method
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 16:37:31 -0600 (CST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200501292237.j0TMbVO09287@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200501292148.j0TLm4S09241@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Sat, 29 Jan 2005 15:48:04 -0600 (CST))
>From my previous message:
(something with which some users seem to
strongly disagree, as I have noticed in some bug reports)
and:
Actually, the principle of least surprise would suggest the empty
list as default. (Apparently some users have been surprised and
heavily inconvenienced when they found out that the backup file
they badly needed was not there in tmp.)
Actually, I found the bug report I remembered back and what happened
was that, for some strange reason, the OP's Linux trees were mounted
on /tmp/linux, indeed a very strange thing to do.
So maybe it is indeed better to keep the list of all temporary
directories as a default for the list of no backup directories. But I
myself have also seen tmp misused in other ways and it might be good
to at least leave the user the option to have backups made there.
I personally do not routinely hand edit files in tmp.
Sincerely,
Luc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-29 22:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-27 0:02 backup method Han Boetes
2005-01-27 0:45 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-27 1:20 ` Miles Bader
2005-01-27 1:37 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-27 1:54 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-27 22:18 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-28 3:56 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-29 4:16 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-29 6:08 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-29 18:42 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-29 21:06 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-29 21:48 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-29 22:37 ` Luc Teirlinck [this message]
2005-01-29 22:49 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-29 21:57 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-29 22:05 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-29 22:52 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-29 23:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-30 21:52 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-31 0:20 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-31 0:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-02-01 13:30 ` Richard Stallman
2005-02-01 14:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-02-03 6:40 ` Richard Stallman
2005-02-03 9:27 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-03 10:15 ` Han Boetes
2005-02-05 5:28 ` Richard Stallman
2005-02-05 10:26 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-06 10:29 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-31 0:20 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-31 4:07 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-29 20:06 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-30 10:57 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-30 11:39 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-27 18:25 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-01-27 20:25 ` Reiner Steib
2005-01-27 23:19 ` Miles Bader
2005-01-27 23:12 ` Miles Bader
2005-01-28 3:55 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-27 1:47 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-27 2:08 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-27 2:27 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-27 4:59 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-27 2:37 ` Miles Bader
2005-01-27 3:27 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-27 5:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-01-27 5:27 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-27 19:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-01-28 4:14 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-27 8:30 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-01-27 19:55 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-27 21:12 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-27 20:15 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-27 22:19 ` Richard Stallman
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