From: Michael Bane <michael.bane@manchester.ac.uk>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: backup files on mounted filesystems
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:34:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17B7398A-A42E-427B-98F4-F644E5F6359A@manchester.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83mwt38wm0.fsf@gnu.org>
On 12 Apr 2013, at 18:52, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Michael Bane <michael.bane@manchester.ac.uk>
>> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:43:44 +0000
>>
>> Hi again & thanks for replies
>>
>> I've not set work as a temp file directory (explicitly) - how would I check?
>> When I look I do see that once upon a time backups must have worked since there's a example.txt~ in there
>
> "M-x load-library RET files.el RET", then instrument
> normal-backup-enable-predicate with Edebug, edit file in work/, type
> "C-x C-s", and step through that function to see what's going on.
Hi Eli and emac-ers
Sorry but I've no idea what Edebug is nor the instrumentation steps?
NB I'm using the "-nw" version of emacs on a Mac
Yours, Michael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-16 14:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-12 12:29 backup files on mounted filesystems Michael Bane
2013-04-12 14:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-12 16:12 ` Michael Bane
2013-04-12 17:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <6DED36A28A9D17448D476BCDD077928E012F6D5EA2@MBXP07.ds.man.ac.uk>
[not found] ` <83mwt38wm0.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-04-16 14:34 ` Michael Bane [this message]
2013-04-16 16:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-12 16:58 ` Stefan Monnier
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