From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "rgb" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Backing up buffers Date: 19 Jan 2007 14:03:00 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1169244180.784240.168240@s34g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <1169229215.741201.20960@11g2000cwr.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169246504 21535 80.91.229.12 (19 Jan 2007 22:41:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:41:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 19 23:41:40 2007 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 1H82QS-0001yl-SZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 23:41:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H82QS-0004Gb-Ar for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:41:36 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!s34g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 10 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 168.208.215.220 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1169244199 10396 127.0.0.1 (19 Jan 2007 22:03:19 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:03:19 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: <1169229215.741201.20960@11g2000cwr.googlegroups.com> User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; InfoPath.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: s34g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=168.208.215.220; posting-account=C7LM4w0AAAD23IRuMuUUJVCLQTuHhTK8 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144868 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:40472 Archived-At: > I'm trying to find out if there's a way to configure Emacs so that > buffers with no file associated could also be silently backuped. Basically, no. Naturally you could write something. The hard part would be deciding what buffers to 'back up'. There are loads of buffers used for purposes you really wouldn't want 'backed up'. For example dired buffers.