From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: backup method Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 16:37:31 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <200501292237.j0TMbVO09287@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <20050127000210.GA6167@boetes.org> <200501270045.j0R0jIq06197@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <20050127015432.GB6167@boetes.org> <20050128035618.GI6167@boetes.org> <20050129060851.GQ6167@boetes.org> <200501291842.j0TIgVw09020@raven.dms.auburn.edu> <87d5vo7xsw.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <200501292148.j0TLm4S09241@raven.dms.auburn.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1107038757 28154 80.91.229.6 (29 Jan 2005 22:45:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:45:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, han@mijncomputer.nl Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 29 23:45:45 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Cv1Lc-0007Ey-00 for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 23:45:45 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Cv1Y8-0003P8-PZ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 17:58:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Cv1Wo-0002pA-94 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 17:57:18 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Cv1Wh-0002kW-4V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 17:57:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Cv1Wg-0002j7-PM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 17:57:10 -0500 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Cv1Ei-00069u-W2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 17:38:37 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0TMca9N017930; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 16:38:36 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j0TMbVO09287; Sat, 29 Jan 2005 16:37:31 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu In-reply-to: <200501292148.j0TLm4S09241@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (message from Luc Teirlinck on Sat, 29 Jan 2005 15:48:04 -0600 (CST)) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:32631 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:32631 >>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.