From: Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen@gatech.edu>
Subject: Re: Backing up buffers
Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:47:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <45B15876.4040207@gatech.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1169244180.784240.168240@s34g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>
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rgb wrote:
>> 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.
If you designed it right, this wouldn't be a problem. In normal
circumstances, simply remove all backups on close. If emacs does crash,
on open it can ask whether each buffer should be restored or deleted,
ala OpenOffice.
Matthew Flaschen
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-19 17:53 Backing up buffers HS
2007-01-19 22:03 ` rgb
2007-01-19 23:47 ` Matthew Flaschen [this message]
2007-01-20 13:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-01-22 14:05 ` Matthew Flaschen
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2007-01-21 16:19 ` rgb
2007-01-21 20:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.3391.1169413066.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-22 13:00 ` HS
2007-01-20 13:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
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