From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: backup files on mounted filesystems
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 20:41:34 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ppxz8x4h.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84B0B561-B086-4175-94D0-DBB899057B8E@manchester.ac.uk>
> From: Michael Bane <michael.bane@manchester.ac.uk>
> CC: "<help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>" <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:12:11 +0000
>
> >> I've noticed that I do not seem to get automatic backup files if I am on a mounted filesystem (eg /tmp). Is there a setting for enabling this functionality?
> >
> > Not mounted filesystems, but specifically /tmp, because it's a place
> > where you place temporary files.
>
> As well as /tmp (on whichever OS I have tried) I also see this issue on MacOS where work/ is a mounted (encrypted) filesystem
If work/ is temporary-file-directory, then that's again Emacs in
action. Otherwise, it's not Emacs's fault.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-12 17:41 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 [this message]
[not found] ` <6DED36A28A9D17448D476BCDD077928E012F6D5EA2@MBXP07.ds.man.ac.uk>
[not found] ` <83mwt38wm0.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-04-16 14:34 ` Michael Bane
2013-04-16 16:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-12 16:58 ` Stefan Monnier
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=83ppxz8x4h.fsf@gnu.org \
--to=eliz@gnu.org \
--cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).