From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Changing name format for backup files Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:26:17 +0100 Message-ID: <87io2zem06.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1452554805 25690 80.91.229.3 (11 Jan 2016 23:26:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 23:26:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 12 00:26:37 2016 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 1aIlrB-0005Cz-O5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:26:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57248 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aIlrB-0004Ck-1H for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 18:26:37 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59803) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aIlr1-0004Cf-6m for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 18:26:27 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aIlqy-0000nt-Hn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 18:26:27 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46036) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aIlqy-0000nh-Ap for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 18:26:24 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aIlqx-000559-4Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:26:23 +0100 Original-Received: from 215.red-81-39-60.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([81.39.60.215]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:26:23 +0100 Original-Received: from ofv by 215.red-81-39-60.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 2016 00:26:23 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 215.red-81-39-60.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fn0c7NNJsaCvSu13alR5/MJVt2I= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:108698 Archived-At: Nick Helm writes: > I do something similar to `make-auto-save-file-name' to achieve the > same result for auto save files. > > Redefining core functions seems like a pretty heavy handed approach to the > problem though. Is there better way to achieve the same result? Or perhaps > there's a user option I missed in the manual? For overriding how a function work, see defadvice. However, often there are variables that control how some feature works. For your case, those seems to apply: C-h v make-backup-file-name-function C-h v auto-save-file-name-transforms