* long filename fools diff-backup?
@ 2003-08-25 4:44 Dan Jacobson
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From: Dan Jacobson @ 2003-08-25 4:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
In dired I hit ESC =, and see:
diff-backup: No backup found for
/var/lib/apt/lists/debian.linux.org.tw_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-i386_Packages
Ha! I bet the long file name fooled it, as both
debian.linux.org.tw_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-i386_Packages
debian.linux.org.tw_debian_dists_sid_main_binary-i386_Packages~
exist.
When I put the cursor on the backup, it works.
When I touch the same long filenames into /tmp, they both work.
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* Re: long filename fools diff-backup?
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@ 2003-08-30 23:31 ` Dan Jacobson
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From: Dan Jacobson @ 2003-08-30 23:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
RMS> but I can't guess what it is. Can you debug it?
I now believe maybe that if a .backups dir exists, diff-backup then
doesn't check for xxxx~ style backups. It thinks all backups are made
by emacs, and doesn't look for simpler backup file names made by other
programs... At least after loading my
http://jidanni.org/comp/emacs.txt
Perhaps try:
mkdir .backups
touch a a~
wget http://jidanni.org/comp/emacs.txt
emacs -l emacs.txt . #which requires backup-dir.el
put cursor on "a" and hit M-=
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* Re: long filename fools diff-backup?
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@ 2003-09-02 17:00 ` Kevin Rodgers
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From: Kevin Rodgers @ 2003-09-02 17:00 UTC (permalink / raw)
Dan Jacobson wrote:
> RMS> but I can't guess what it is. Can you debug it?
>
> I now believe maybe that if a .backups dir exists, diff-backup then
> doesn't check for xxxx~ style backups. It thinks all backups are made
> by emacs, and doesn't look for simpler backup file names made by other
> programs... At least after loading my
> http://jidanni.org/comp/emacs.txt
>
> Perhaps try:
> mkdir .backups
> touch a a~
> wget http://jidanni.org/comp/emacs.txt
> emacs -l emacs.txt . #which requires backup-dir.el
Cannot open load file: backup-dir.el
> put cursor on "a" and hit M-=
--
Kevin Rodgers
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