* c library for handling backup files?
@ 2022-09-21 12:34 Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-09-21 13:06 ` Philip Kaludercic
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From: Alfred M. Szmidt @ 2022-09-21 12:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-devel
Does anyone know of a C library for handling Emacs-like backup files?
E.g., if writing a file, the function would do the right thing.
And all the other nice things that come with Emacs.
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* Re: c library for handling backup files?
2022-09-21 12:34 c library for handling backup files? Alfred M. Szmidt
@ 2022-09-21 13:06 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-09-21 13:14 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-09-21 13:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Philip Kaludercic @ 2022-09-21 13:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alfred M. Szmidt; +Cc: emacs-devel
"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:
> Does anyone know of a C library for handling Emacs-like backup files?
> E.g., if writing a file, the function would do the right thing.
>
> And all the other nice things that come with Emacs.
I know that GNU Indent uses a similar backup system, and looking at
their backup code[0] it seems fairly self-contained. Perhaps it could
be extracted into a separate library?
[0] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/indent.git/tree/src/backup.c
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* Re: c library for handling backup files?
2022-09-21 12:34 c library for handling backup files? Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-09-21 13:06 ` Philip Kaludercic
@ 2022-09-21 13:14 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-09-21 13:29 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-09-21 13:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Andreas Schwab @ 2022-09-21 13:14 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alfred M. Szmidt; +Cc: emacs-devel
On Sep 21 2022, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> Does anyone know of a C library for handling Emacs-like backup files?
There is backupfile in gnulib.
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* Re: c library for handling backup files?
2022-09-21 12:34 c library for handling backup files? Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-09-21 13:06 ` Philip Kaludercic
2022-09-21 13:14 ` Andreas Schwab
@ 2022-09-21 13:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-21 19:11 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2 siblings, 1 reply; 9+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2022-09-21 13:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alfred M. Szmidt; +Cc: emacs-devel
> From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 08:34:35 -0400
>
> Does anyone know of a C library for handling Emacs-like backup files?
> E.g., if writing a file, the function would do the right thing.
Coreutils do that, no? E.g., "cp -b".
> And all the other nice things that come with Emacs.
_All_ of them? That's Emacs, I guess.
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* Re: c library for handling backup files?
2022-09-21 13:14 ` Andreas Schwab
@ 2022-09-21 13:29 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
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From: Alfred M. Szmidt @ 2022-09-21 13:29 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Andreas Schwab; +Cc: emacs-devel
> Does anyone know of a C library for handling Emacs-like backup files?
There is backupfile in gnulib.
Bingo! Thank you!
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* Re: c library for handling backup files?
2022-09-21 13:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
@ 2022-09-21 19:11 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2022-09-21 19:21 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
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From: Thierry Volpiatto @ 2022-09-21 19:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Eli Zaretskii; +Cc: Alfred M. Szmidt, emacs-devel
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
>> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 08:34:35 -0400
>>
>> Does anyone know of a C library for handling Emacs-like backup files?
>> E.g., if writing a file, the function would do the right thing.
>
> Coreutils do that, no? E.g., "cp -b".
dired-async.el provides a backup function similar to
cp -f --backup=numbered from to.
--
Thierry
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* Re: c library for handling backup files?
2022-09-21 19:11 ` Thierry Volpiatto
@ 2022-09-21 19:21 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-09-21 20:50 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2022-09-22 4:43 ` tomas
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From: Alfred M. Szmidt @ 2022-09-21 19:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Thierry Volpiatto; +Cc: eliz, emacs-devel
>> From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
>> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 08:34:35 -0400
>>
>> Does anyone know of a C library for handling Emacs-like backup files?
>> E.g., if writing a file, the function would do the right thing.
>
> Coreutils do that, no? E.g., "cp -b".
dired-async.el provides a backup function similar to
cp -f --backup=numbered from to.
You might want to go to the optician, so you can Cee what you missed
in my message ... ;-)
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* Re: c library for handling backup files?
2022-09-21 19:21 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
@ 2022-09-21 20:50 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2022-09-22 4:43 ` tomas
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From: Thierry Volpiatto @ 2022-09-21 20:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Alfred M. Szmidt; +Cc: eliz, emacs-devel
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"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:
> >> From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
> >> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 08:34:35 -0400
> >>
> >> Does anyone know of a C library for handling Emacs-like backup files?
> >> E.g., if writing a file, the function would do the right thing.
> >
> > Coreutils do that, no? E.g., "cp -b".
>
> dired-async.el provides a backup function similar to
> cp -f --backup=numbered from to.
>
> You might want to go to the optician, so you can Cee what you missed
> in my message ... ;-)
Probably you can say instead: Thank you for your answer but it is not
what I am looking for.
Have a good evening.
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Thierry
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* Re: c library for handling backup files?
2022-09-21 19:21 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2022-09-21 20:50 ` Thierry Volpiatto
@ 2022-09-22 4:43 ` tomas
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From: tomas @ 2022-09-22 4:43 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-devel
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On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 03:21:36PM -0400, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> >> From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
> >> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 08:34:35 -0400
> >>
> >> Does anyone know of a C library for handling Emacs-like backup files?
> >> E.g., if writing a file, the function would do the right thing.
> >
> > Coreutils do that, no? E.g., "cp -b".
>
> dired-async.el provides a backup function similar to
> cp -f --backup=numbered from to.
>
> You might want to go to the optician, so you can Cee what you missed
> in my message ... ;-)
Isn't everything C, if you squint a bit? (Now i'll have all the SBCL,
Haskell and Rust folks all over me -- but definitely, Emacs lisp
is C at a lower layer ;-)
But seriously: you could have been nicer in response to a honest
mistake.
Cheers
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t
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