Emacs backup woes with "b~"

Emacs backup woes with "b~"

[Joe]

Hey I can't seem to figure out why emacs is saving files in the form
"b~myfile.adb" in my directories.

I have the following in my .emacs

(setq
 backup-by-copying t
 backup-directory-alist
 '(("." . "~/.emacs.d/.emacs-backups"))
 delete-old-versions t
 kept-new-versions 3
 kept-old-versions 2
 version-control t)

The "b~*" files are created right after I compile.

Thanks,

Joe

Re: Emacs backup woes with "b~"

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Joe <joesmoe10@gmail.com> writes:

> Hey I can't seem to figure out why emacs is saving files in the form
> "b~myfile.adb" in my directories.
>
> I have the following in my .emacs
>
> (setq
>  backup-by-copying t
>  backup-directory-alist
>  '(("." . "~/.emacs.d/.emacs-backups"))
>  delete-old-versions t
>  kept-new-versions 3
>  kept-old-versions 2
>  version-control t)
>
> The "b~*" files are created right after I compile.

Perhaps you are working on some inferior "OS" from Microsoft, or on some
inferior file system designed by same company?


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Re: Emacs backup woes with "b~"

[Joe]

On Sep 6, 12:06 am, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
wrote:
> Joe <joesmo...@gmail.com> writes:
> > Hey I can't seem to figure out why emacs is saving files in the form
> > "b~myfile.adb" in my directories.
>
> > I have the following in my .emacs
>
> > (setq
> >  backup-by-copying t
> >  backup-directory-alist
> >  '(("." . "~/.emacs.d/.emacs-backups"))
> >  delete-old-versions t
> >  kept-new-versions 3
> >  kept-old-versions 2
> >  version-control t)
>
> > The "b~*" files are created right after I compile.
>
> Perhaps you are working on some inferior "OS" from Microsoft, or on some
> inferior file system designed by same company?
>
> --
> __Pascal Bourguignon__                    http://www.informatimago.com/
>
> THIS IS A 100% MATTER PRODUCT: In the unlikely event that this
> merchandise should contact antimatter in any form, a catastrophic
> explosion will result.

Nope, Ubuntu 8.04.  Sorry forgot some other stuff.  I'm using emacs
23.0.60.1

Re: Emacs backup woes with "b~"

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Joe <joesmoe10@gmail.com> writes:
>> > The "b~*" files are created right after I compile.
>>
>> Perhaps you are working on some inferior "OS" from Microsoft, or on some
>> inferior file system designed by same company?
>
> Nope, Ubuntu 8.04.  Sorry forgot some other stuff.  I'm using emacs
> 23.0.60.1

What does  df -T  show?

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Re: Emacs backup woes with "b~"

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Joe <joesmoe10@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 19:08:37 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> Hey I can't seem to figure out why emacs is saving files in the form
> "b~myfile.adb" in my directories.
> 
> I have the following in my .emacs
> 
> (setq
>  backup-by-copying t
>  backup-directory-alist
>  '(("." . "~/.emacs.d/.emacs-backups"))
>  delete-old-versions t
>  kept-new-versions 3
>  kept-old-versions 2
>  version-control t)
> 
> The "b~*" files are created right after I compile.

Do you have any real evidence that these files are created by Emacs?

Re: Emacs backup woes with "b~"

[Allan Gottlieb]

At Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:08:37 -0700 (PDT) Joe <joesmoe10@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey I can't seem to figure out why emacs is saving files in the form
> "b~myfile.adb" in my directories.

Those are not regular emacs backups.  They are produced by the ada
compiler.

allan

Re: Emacs backup woes with "b~"

[Joe]

On Sep 6, 3:06 am, Eli Zaretskii <e...@gnu.org> wrote:
> > From: Joe <joesmo...@gmail.com>
> > Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 19:08:37 -0700 (PDT)
>
> > Hey I can't seem to figure out why emacs is saving files in the form
> > "b~myfile.adb" in my directories.
>
> > I have the following in my .emacs
>
> > (setq
> >  backup-by-copying t
> >  backup-directory-alist
> >  '(("." . "~/.emacs.d/.emacs-backups"))
> >  delete-old-versions t
> >  kept-new-versions 3
> >  kept-old-versions 2
> >  version-control t)
>
> > The "b~*" files are created right after I compile.
>
> Do you have any real evidence that these files are created by Emacs?

No, just found out that these files are from the gnat ada compiler for
debugging use.  The default emacs build command for ada includes the -
g switch which generates debugging info.  To turn it off:

(setq ada-prj-default-gnatmake-opt "")

with whatever switches you want in the quotes.