From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: backup files on mounted filesystems
Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:57:09 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83wqs794qi.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <406986C2-7976-4888-BF14-EED156EBBDE3@manchester.ac.uk>
> From: Michael Bane <michael.bane@manchester.ac.uk>
> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:29:49 +0100
>
> I've noticed that I do not seem to get automatic backup files if I am on a mounted filesystem (eg /tmp). Is there a setting for enabling this functionality?
Not mounted filesystems, but specifically /tmp, because it's a place
where you place temporary files.
To customize this, define your own function instead of
normal-backup-enable-predicate, and set backup-enable-predicate to
that function.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-04-12 14:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-12 12:29 backup files on mounted filesystems Michael Bane
2013-04-12 14:57 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-04-12 16:12 ` Michael Bane
2013-04-12 17:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
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[not found] ` <83mwt38wm0.fsf@gnu.org>
2013-04-16 14:34 ` Michael Bane
2013-04-16 16:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-12 16:58 ` Stefan Monnier
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