From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: han@mijncomputer.nl, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: backup method
Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 16:06:34 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d5vo7xsw.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200501291842.j0TIgVw09020@raven.dms.auburn.edu> (Luc Teirlinck's message of "Sat, 29 Jan 2005 12:42:31 -0600 (CST)")
> I am not _sure_, but I have the impression that `temporary-file-directory'
> was exactly intended for portability reasons. I believe that it was
> intended to be the "normal" place for the OS to put temporary files.
> You normally do not have to customize it because the code you quoted
> normally gets it right. If it gets it wrong, you have to customize it.
No, temporary-file-directory points to the directory where *Emacs* should
put its temporary files. What Han's problem suggests is that we may want to
add some variable that points to the director*ies* whose files should be
considered "temporary".
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-29 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-27 0:02 backup method Han Boetes
2005-01-27 0:45 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-27 1:20 ` Miles Bader
2005-01-27 1:37 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-27 1:54 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-27 22:18 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-28 3:56 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-29 4:16 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-29 6:08 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-29 18:42 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-29 21:06 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2005-01-29 21:48 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-29 22:37 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-29 22:49 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-29 21:57 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-29 22:05 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-29 22:52 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-29 23:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-01-30 21:52 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-31 0:20 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-31 0:57 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-02-01 13:30 ` Richard Stallman
2005-02-01 14:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-02-03 6:40 ` Richard Stallman
2005-02-03 9:27 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-03 10:15 ` Han Boetes
2005-02-05 5:28 ` Richard Stallman
2005-02-05 10:26 ` David Kastrup
2005-02-06 10:29 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-31 0:20 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-31 4:07 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-29 20:06 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-30 10:57 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-30 11:39 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-27 18:25 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-01-27 20:25 ` Reiner Steib
2005-01-27 23:19 ` Miles Bader
2005-01-27 23:12 ` Miles Bader
2005-01-28 3:55 ` Richard Stallman
2005-01-27 1:47 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-27 2:08 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-27 2:27 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-27 4:59 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-27 2:37 ` Miles Bader
2005-01-27 3:27 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-27 5:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-01-27 5:27 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-27 19:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-01-28 4:14 ` Han Boetes
2005-01-27 8:30 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-01-27 19:55 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-27 21:12 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-27 20:15 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-01-27 22:19 ` Richard Stallman
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87d5vo7xsw.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org \
--to=monnier@iro.umontreal.ca \
--cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
--cc=han@mijncomputer.nl \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this external index
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.