Thanks. Stupid of me to have been caught this way. I knew it, but never
used it so...



2014-06-16 22:58 GMT+02:00 Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>:

> > This is because after editing foo.el, foo1.el is still a hard link but to
> > foo.el~ (autosave file). :-/
> > Quite misleading! Sorry for the noise.
>
> Try C-h f backup-by-copying TAB
>
>
>         Stefan
>