From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: "Ramkumar R. Aiyengar" <andyetitmoves@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; find-backup-file-name assumes base name of backup file names
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 21:20:48 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lk3pdtvz.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9a9bfc170804070833u506e25e0ycf66010d61eea931@mail.gmail.com> (Ramkumar R. Aiyengar's message of "Mon, 7 Apr 2008 16:33:02 +0100")
"Ramkumar R. Aiyengar" <andyetitmoves@gmail.com> writes:
> Hi!
>
>> In the code, find-backup-file-name only uses make-backup-file-name-1
>> when checking for numeric backup files (usually for files under version
>> control). If it determines that a non-numeric backup file is desired,
>> it calls make-backup-file-name, which correctly checks
>> make-backup-file-name-function as desired. Note that
>> make-backup-file-name-function only applies to non-numeric backup files.
>
> Ah! So, the make-backup-file-name-function can be used only if
> version-control is not set? Didn't know that.. I am here trying to use
> version-control set to t, along with a custom
> make-backup-file-name-function (for creating a shadow directory
> structure for backup files: backup-alist flattens out backup file
> names within it.. files like..
> ~/.emacs.d/backup/home/ramk/.emacs.~2~). Could this then become a
> feature request, to allow customization of the backup function for
> versioned backups?
I'll add it to the TODO list. Thanks.
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2008-04-07 15:18 23.0.60; find-backup-file-name assumes base name of backup file names Chong Yidong
2008-04-07 15:33 ` Ramkumar R. Aiyengar
2008-04-08 1:20 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
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2008-03-22 2:27 Ramkumar R. Aiyengar
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