From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Is it possible to prevent emacs auto saving the filename~? Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 10:18:49 -0700 Message-ID: <001401c9cc13$3acc4400$0200a8c0@us.oracle.com> References: <6a8fced30905030434w7fb2693ct493bcba6a2b4499b@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1241371171 3734 80.91.229.12 (3 May 2009 17:19:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 May 2009 17:19:31 +0000 (UTC) To: "'??'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun May 03 19:19:22 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M0fLW-0006Qf-EJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 May 2009 19:19:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57461 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M0fLV-00080w-K4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 May 2009 13:19:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M0fL6-0007xa-Vy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 May 2009 13:18:57 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M0fL0-0007tS-BY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 May 2009 13:18:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56323 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M0fL0-0007tO-7r for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 May 2009 13:18:50 -0400 Original-Received: from rcsinet11.oracle.com ([148.87.113.123]:53973 helo=rgminet11.oracle.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M0fKz-0003gm-UA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 May 2009 13:18:50 -0400 Original-Received: from acsinet15.oracle.com (acsinet15.oracle.com [141.146.126.227]) by rgminet11.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n43HIwVb007476 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 3 May 2009 17:18:59 GMT Original-Received: from abhmt004.oracle.com (abhmt004.oracle.com [141.146.116.13]) by acsinet15.oracle.com (Switch-3.3.1/Switch-3.3.1) with ESMTP id n43HIxEd007220; Sun, 3 May 2009 17:18:59 GMT Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/141.144.88.104) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Sun, 03 May 2009 10:18:43 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-reply-to: <6a8fced30905030434w7fb2693ct493bcba6a2b4499b@mail.gmail.com> Thread-Index: AcnMDyq3LmRgMPFVRkuXFpSWLln1GgAA1Q+Q X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 X-Source-IP: abhmt004.oracle.com [141.146.116.13] X-Auth-Type: Internal IP X-CT-RefId: str=0001.0A090201.49FDD1F4.0041:SCFSTAT3317510,ss=1,fgs=0 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:64156 Archived-At: > I know that emacs auto save a file named filename~ when I modified the > file filename, but I do not like the autosaved copy, could i stop this > function? thanks `C-h r' (or, if not available for your Emacs version, `C-h i', choose Emacs, for the Emacs manual). `i backup TAB file RET' (or `go Backup'), to go to node Backup. Read about backup files. The manual is your friend.