From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 18141@debbugs.gnu.org, yamaoka@jpl.org
Subject: bug#18141: 24.4.50; saving .gz file breaks file coding
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2014 16:23:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140807142338.GA5034@xvii.vinc17.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv38d8a437.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org>
On 2014-08-07 08:20:06 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > 1 GB costs 0.10 EUR per month, and I don't want to waste several
> > dozens of GB of backups (easily produced without clean-up). Once
> > becoming useless, backup files have no value.
>
> Note that in this specific case, the problem only happens if you ask
> Emacs to keep backups.
It also depends on the file system. This is rather strange.
> I have set make-backup-files to nil many years ago and never looked
> back (all the files where it might matter are under some kind of VCS
> anyway).
I also wonder whether I should set make-backup-files to nil, for the
same reason. I very rarely look in my backup directory.
> >> After r111638, the prompt is issued before backing up the file.
> > And that's a much more logical sequence.
>
> Indeed. The problem is that this is done by changing the moment at
> which the coding-system is chosen (and makes it "too early") instead of
> changing the moment at which the backup is made (which is the right
> thing to do, but requires more significant changes in the code).
OK.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-07 14:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-29 6:59 bug#18141: 24.4.50; saving .gz file breaks file coding Katsumi Yamaoka
2014-07-30 0:10 ` Glenn Morris
2014-07-30 2:36 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2014-07-30 13:15 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2014-08-05 8:34 ` Glenn Morris
2014-08-06 14:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-06 16:43 ` Vincent Lefevre
2014-08-06 17:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-06 19:08 ` Vincent Lefevre
2014-08-06 19:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-07 0:31 ` Vincent Lefevre
2014-08-07 12:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-07 14:23 ` Vincent Lefevre [this message]
2014-08-11 1:06 ` Glenn Morris
2014-08-06 17:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-06 18:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-07 0:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-07 15:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-07 19:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-07 19:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-07 20:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-08-08 5:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-06 23:45 ` Glenn Morris
2014-08-07 0:03 ` Glenn Morris
2014-08-07 12:14 ` Stefan Monnier
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