From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to change and save a read-only file? Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 17:24:49 +0100 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Message-ID: <87hab79h1x.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> References: <87wqk3da68.fsf@nl106-137-194.student.uu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1384965014 17669 80.91.229.3 (20 Nov 2013 16:30:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 16:30:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 20 17:30:21 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VjAfU-0004h6-PU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 17:30:20 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:55536 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VjAfU-0007F1-2B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 Nov 2013 11:30:20 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!news.mb-net.net!open-news-network.org!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: VVbyYd/iFZoeWNmD9i++cQ.user.speranza.aioe.org Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.4 (gnu/linux) X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:jMZlJsz9+C/YyjlhMepX9QdnaRg= Mail-Copies-To: never Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:202277 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:94546 Archived-At: Kevin Rodgers writes: > See the "Rename or Copy" node (aka "Backup by > Renaming or by Copying?") in the Emacs Lisp manual: > let-bind backup-by-copying to nil and > backup-by-copying-when-linked to t. > > Also, see the interactions with > backup-directory-alist that are explained in the > "Auto-save and Backup" node of the Tramp manual. Well, that's a lot to digest. Is there still a problem with the code? -- Emanuel Berg, programmer-for-rent. CV, projects, etc at uXu underground experts united: http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573