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From: "Chris Moore" <christopher.ian.moore@gmail.com>
To: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: creating backups in temporary directories
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2007 12:42:29 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a9691ee20709070342w43d278cfmd4ca133068d35221@mail.gmail.com> (raw)


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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.  But Emacs doesn't make backups of
files in /tmp, and there doesn't seem to be any way of asking it to via the
customize interface.

The best I've found is to:
  (setq backup-enable-predicate '(lambda (file) t))



Suggestions:
1) make that the default value - why not write backups in /tmp?
2) offer a way for the user to customize the behavior without resorting to
writing Emacs LISP code

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             reply	other threads:[~2007-09-07 10:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-07 10:42 Chris Moore [this message]
2007-09-07 15:36 ` creating backups in temporary directories David Kastrup
2007-09-07 17:57   ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-07 19:43     ` Davis Herring
2007-09-07 19:49     ` Sven Joachim
2007-09-07 19:52       ` David Kastrup
2007-09-08 19:47         ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-07 20:47       ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-08 19:47         ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-09 19:44           ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-09 20:01             ` David Kastrup
2007-09-09 20:27               ` Andreas Schwab
2007-09-10  1:11                 ` David Kastrup
2007-09-10 19:18                   ` Davis Herring
2007-09-10 19:55                     ` David Kastrup
     [not found]                   ` <37852.128.165.123.18.1189451917.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov>
2007-09-10 19:23                     ` Davis Herring
2007-09-11 20:32                       ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-11 21:17                         ` Davis Herring
2007-09-10  1:12             ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-10  2:59               ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-08 14:38     ` Chris Moore
2007-09-08 19:48     ` Richard Stallman
2007-09-09 19:41       ` Stefan Monnier
2007-09-09 19:45         ` David Kastrup
2007-09-10  1:12         ` Richard Stallman

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