From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: backup files on mounted filesystems Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:57:09 +0300 Message-ID: <83wqs794qi.fsf@gnu.org> References: <406986C2-7976-4888-BF14-EED156EBBDE3@manchester.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1365778691 28721 80.91.229.3 (12 Apr 2013 14:58:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:58:11 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 12 16:58:15 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 1UQfQc-0001GF-CT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:58:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:44846 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UQfQc-0003M9-2l for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:58:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:42605) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UQfQQ-0003Kx-1j for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:58:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UQfQO-0002xX-14 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:58:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:40940) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UQfQN-0002xL-PT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 10:57:59 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0ML500I00DEMSO00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:57:08 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0ML500I67DJ7GNB0@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:57:08 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <406986C2-7976-4888-BF14-EED156EBBDE3@manchester.ac.uk> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 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:90123 Archived-At: > From: Michael Bane > Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:29:49 +0100 > > 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. To customize this, define your own function instead of normal-backup-enable-predicate, and set backup-enable-predicate to that function.