From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Backing up buffers Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 15:27:22 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1169229215.741201.20960@11g2000cwr.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169299662 3834 80.91.229.12 (20 Jan 2007 13:27:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 13:27:42 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 20 14:27:38 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 1H8GFm-0004Uc-Sa for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:27:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H8GFn-000572-6h for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 08:27:31 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H8GFW-00056U-RE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 08:27:14 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H8GFW-00056I-Cd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 08:27:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H8GFW-00056F-5H for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 08:27:14 -0500 Original-Received: from [213.8.233.24] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1H8GFV-0002QN-Q1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Jan 2007 08:27:14 -0500 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-80-230-199-87.inter.net.il [80.230.199.87]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id GXE61768 (AUTH halo1); Sat, 20 Jan 2007 15:27:15 +0200 (IST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-reply-to: <1169229215.741201.20960@11g2000cwr.googlegroups.com> (hugows@gmail.com) 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:40477 Archived-At: > From: "HS" > Date: 19 Jan 2007 09:53:35 -0800 > > I'm trying to find out if there's a way to configure Emacs so that > buffers with no file associated could also be silently backuped. What do you mean by ``backuped'' here? Backup is something you do to preserve the original version of a file when the modified version is written to disk. Buffers that don't have an associated file cannot possibly overwrite an existing file, so there's nothing to backup. Do you perhaps mean some kind of auto-save, whereby the buffers that don't have an associated file are saved to disk where you can find them in case Emacs crashes? If so, I think you want to look into turning auto-save on in those buffers, not backup them. Or are you looking for something else? If so, please tell more details.