From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Bane Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: backup files on mounted filesystems Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:34:22 +0100 Message-ID: <17B7398A-A42E-427B-98F4-F644E5F6359A@manchester.ac.uk> References: <406986C2-7976-4888-BF14-EED156EBBDE3@manchester.ac.uk> <83wqs794qi.fsf@gnu.org> <84B0B561-B086-4175-94D0-DBB899057B8E@manchester.ac.uk> <83ppxz8x4h.fsf@gnu.org> <6DED36A28A9D17448D476BCDD077928E012F6D5EA2@MBXP07.ds.man.ac.uk> <83mwt38wm0.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1366123405 2221 80.91.229.3 (16 Apr 2013 14:43:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:43:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Apr 16 16:43:29 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1US76T-000763-92 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 16:43:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34300 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1US76S-00081p-Uv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:43:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37250) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1US74j-0005Vi-B8 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:41:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1US70P-0003sD-6v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:37:13 -0400 Original-Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk ([130.88.200.94]:63128) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1US6xk-00031Y-Ed; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:34:24 -0400 Original-Received: from rankine.its.manchester.ac.uk ([130.88.25.196]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.76 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1US6xj-000DYo-4E; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:34:23 +0100 Original-Received: from [46.18.172.131] (port=61640 helo=[172.30.25.158]) by rankine.its.manchester.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.73) (envelope-from ) id 1US6xj-0005nq-0k; Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:34:23 +0100 In-Reply-To: <83mwt38wm0.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1085) X-Authenticated-Sender: Michael Bane from ([172.30.25.158]) [46.18.172.131]:61640 X-Authenticated-From: michael.bane@manchester.ac.uk X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 8.x X-Received-From: 130.88.200.94 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:90193 Archived-At: On 12 Apr 2013, at 18:52, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Michael Bane >> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:43:44 +0000 >>=20 >> Hi again & thanks for replies >>=20 >> 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 >=20 > "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?=20 NB I'm using the "-nw" version of emacs on a Mac Yours, Michael=