From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de>
To: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, orium <orium69@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: When does emacs backup files?
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 21:44:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BE44C994-9F55-4653-871D-D489648F0987@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zkpqcvhi.fsf@mithlond.arda>
Am 20.02.2011 um 21:16 schrieb Teemu Likonen:
>> (setq auto-save-interval 125)
>> (setq make-backup-files t ;backup my files
>> backup-by-copying t ;don't clobber symlinks
>
> I think backup-by-copying variable has to do with _hard_ links, not
> symlinks.
Ah, yes! I first introduced 'backup-by-copying t' when I saw that my
clever hard links changed a bit. Years later I found that block (a
larger one, actually) and adopted it – with the original comments
included. And that one comment is presumingly wrong...
Thanks! I'll make an update to my init file.
--
Greetings
Pete
These are my principles and if you don't like them... well, I have
others.
- Groucho Marx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-20 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-18 23:57 When does emacs backup files? orium
2011-02-20 19:54 ` Peter Dyballa
2011-02-20 20:16 ` Teemu Likonen
2011-02-20 20:44 ` Peter Dyballa [this message]
2011-02-23 4:44 ` Kevin Rodgers
2011-02-23 20:55 ` Peter Dyballa
2011-02-21 5:10 ` Le Wang
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