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: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:12:11 +0000 Message-ID: <84B0B561-B086-4175-94D0-DBB899057B8E@manchester.ac.uk> References: <406986C2-7976-4888-BF14-EED156EBBDE3@manchester.ac.uk> <83wqs794qi.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1365783161 16531 80.91.229.3 (12 Apr 2013 16:12:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:12:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "" To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 12 18:12:44 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 1UQgai-00035c-Jx for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 18:12:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48315 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UQgah-0007NH-MM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:12:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35268) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UQgaR-0007NA-Jn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:12:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UQgaK-0007JF-G7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:12:27 -0400 Original-Received: from serenity.mcc.ac.uk ([130.88.200.93]:52819) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UQgaD-0007Gq-Jf; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 12:12:13 -0400 Original-Received: from casp09.ds.man.ac.uk ([10.2.172.11]) by serenity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtps (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.76 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1UQgaC-000JHQ-5L; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:12:12 +0100 Original-Received: from MBXP07.ds.man.ac.uk ([169.254.3.86]) by CASP09.ds.man.ac.uk ([10.2.172.11]) with mapi id 14.01.0289.008; Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:12:11 +0100 Thread-Topic: backup files on mounted filesystems Thread-Index: Ac43eUspLCa40lFkTJ6zdj1efkEVRQADFSOAAAKe2YA= In-Reply-To: <83wqs794qi.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: x-originating-ip: [10.2.172.48] Content-ID: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: FreeBSD 8.x X-Received-From: 130.88.200.93 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:90124 Archived-At: On 12 Apr 2013, at 15:57, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Michael Bane >> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:29:49 +0100 >>=20 >> 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 funct= ionality? >=20 > 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 Mac= OS where work/ is a mounted (encrypted) filesystem Thanks, Michael >=20 > To customize this, define your own function instead of > normal-backup-enable-predicate, and set backup-enable-predicate to > that function. >=20