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: specific backup Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:34:36 -0600 Message-ID: References: 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: ger.gmane.org 1224250525 24375 80.91.229.12 (17 Oct 2008 13:35:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:35:25 +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 Oct 17 15:36:26 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1KqpV7-00007r-Jf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:36:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59069 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KqpU2-0007dK-Hj for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:35:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KqpTg-0007bk-6u for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:34:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KqpTe-0007aw-Lh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:34:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=60961 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KqpTe-0007at-FS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:34:50 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:56216 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 1KqpTe-0003uX-4g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 09:34:50 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KqpTU-0000r9-Qj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:34:40 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.161.145.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:34:40 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:34:40 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (Macintosh/20080914) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/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:58872 Archived-At: harven wrote: > Is there a way to inhibit backups (that is the making of ~ files) > for files satisfying some regular expression, or for files in a > given list ? RTFM (Emacs): The default value of the `backup-enable-predicate' variable prevents backup files being written for files in the directories used for temporary files, specified by `temporary-file-directory' or `small-temporary-file-directory'. RTFM (Emacs Lisp): -- Variable: backup-enable-predicate This variable's value is a function to be called on certain occasions to decide whether a file should have backup files. The function receives one argument, an absolute file name to consider. If the function returns `nil', backups are disabled for that file. Otherwise, the other variables in this section say whether and how to make backups. The default value is `normal-backup-enable-predicate', which checks for files in `temporary-file-directory' and `small-temporary-file-directory'. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA