From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: backup method Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:55:55 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <200501271955.j0RJttW16492@raven.dms.auburn.edu> References: <20050127000210.GA6167@boetes.org> <01c5042e$Blat.v2.4$728a4c40@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1106857026 9165 80.91.229.6 (27 Jan 2005 20:17:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2005 20:17:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, han@mijncomputer.nl, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 27 21:16:50 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CuG4Q-0003T7-00 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 21:16:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CuGGn-0003Zt-IA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:29:37 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CuGCd-0002Lc-LV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:25:20 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1CuGCJ-0002CV-3u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:25:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CuGCI-00027E-JV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 15:24:58 -0500 Original-Received: from [131.204.53.104] (helo=manatee.dms.auburn.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CuFlF-0001b8-CT; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 14:57:01 -0500 Original-Received: from raven.dms.auburn.edu (raven.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.29]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j0RJus9N005211; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:56:54 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by raven.dms.auburn.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j0RJttW16492; Thu, 27 Jan 2005 13:55:55 -0600 (CST) X-Authentication-Warning: raven.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f Original-To: storm@cua.dk In-reply-to: (storm@cua.dk) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:32590 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:32590 Kim Storm wrote: I don't normally use auto-revert mode, but perhaps the default could change if you enable auto-revert mode? It has actually nothing _directly_ to do with Auto Revert mode, except that the reason to enable Auto Revert is that you expect something else to be writing to the file. This does not interfere with your editing as long as it only appends to the file. You do not want to have the process start to append to the backup file. I guess that it would be sufficient to set `backup-by-copying-when-mismatch' to t to avoid the problem. (And `backup-by-copying-when-linked' to t to avoid silently breaking hard links, an unrelated but nasty problem.) Sincerely, Luc.