From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Auto backup files (ending with ~) stopped working. Why? Options Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:38:19 -0600 Message-ID: References: <1182949228.694618.210710@n2g2000hse.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1184139538 16602 80.91.229.12 (11 Jul 2007 07:38:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 07:38:58 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 11 09:38:57 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1I8Wml-0002Pz-K9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:38:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I8Wmk-0001ou-VB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:38:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I8WmV-0001oY-Cz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:38:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1I8WmU-0001oI-2x for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:38:38 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1I8WmT-0001oD-VX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:38:37 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1I8WmT-0008PU-BO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 03:38:37 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1I8WmJ-0004iI-GP for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:38:27 +0200 Original-Received: from c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.162.159.170]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:38:27 +0200 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:38:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 30 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-162-159-170.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.12 (Macintosh/20070509) In-Reply-To: <1182949228.694618.210710@n2g2000hse.googlegroups.com> X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:45585 Archived-At: linuxlover992000@yahoo.com wrote: > I appologize up front for the double-post (I mistakenly posted this > request for help in the wrong newsgroup a few minutes ago): > > I was happily editing some text files using emacs when I suddenly > noticed that it does not automatically create the famous ~ backup > files for them. > > I swear that I did not touch .emacs anytime recently. Yet, the sudden > disappearance of this useful feature occured only last night. > > > What could be the possible explanation(s) for such strange behavior? > Is it possible that I mistakenly hit some key combination that turned > off that feature forever? If so, how do I restore it? > > > Any idea? C-h v make-backup-files C-h v backup-inhibited C-h v backup-enable-predicate C-h f normal-backup-enable-predicate C-h v make-backup-file-name-function C-h f make-backup-file-name C-h v backup-directory-alist -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA