From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs Subject: Re: creating backups in temporary directories Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:36:33 +0200 Message-ID: <85sl5q5vy6.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189179418 20099 80.91.229.12 (7 Sep 2007 15:36:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 15:36:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org To: "Chris Moore" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 07 17:36:56 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1ITft4-0000YV-85 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:36:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITft2-0002EP-4A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:36:48 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITfsx-0002B3-2G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:36:43 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1ITfsv-00029X-US for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:36:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ITfsv-00029S-JD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:36:41 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ITfsv-0001lC-DC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:36:41 -0400 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ITfsc-0001Yt-6O for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:36:22 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ITfsr-0001kU-LY for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:36:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-06.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.46]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1ITfsr-0001jp-4j for emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org; Fri, 07 Sep 2007 11:36:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.16]) by mail-in-06.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EAD031F3C7; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 17:36:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail-in-07.arcor-online.net (mail-in-07.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.47]) by mail-in-04-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92FE2ABE0E; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 17:36:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-039-212.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.39.212]) by mail-in-07.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69FF4292B63; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 17:36:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id CAE9C1CAD71B; Fri, 7 Sep 2007 17:36:33 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Chris Moore's message of "Fri\, 7 Sep 2007 12\:42\:29 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.2/4178/Fri Sep 7 10:54:58 2007 on mail-in-07.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Detected-Kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:78161 gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs:19764 Archived-At: "Chris Moore" writes: > I quite often want to email diffs of files I don't have write access > to, so I visit the file, write it to /tmp, then edit it, save it, > and go to /tmp to run diff between the file and its backup. That's not what backups are for. Why don't you save under a different name? That's what C-x C-w is for. > Suggestions: > 1) make that the default value - why not write backups in /tmp? Because making a "backup" for a file in a place that is regularly cleaned out is creating an illusion of security. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum