From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
To: hw <hw@adminart.net>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: how to force auto-save of buffers not visiting files, right now?
Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2022 10:58:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wngqclgk.fsf@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <37e890d9c251b30d0caf83aa590bca1ad92ec5d4.camel@adminart.net> (hw@adminart.net's message of "Sat, 19 Mar 2022 07:24:19 +0100")
hw <hw@adminart.net> writes:
Hi,
> For example, I may edit a file '/usr/local/bin/example.pl' which is
> owned by foo:foo because I made that so. The directory
> '/usr/local/bin/' is owned by root. How do you expect emacs to create
> a backup file there? For remote files, I have set
> tramp-auto-save-directory to a local directory, and I'm missing an
> equivalent option for local files.
There is the user option auto-save-file-name-transforms, which gives you
this feature also for local files.
Best regards, Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-19 9:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-14 4:55 how to force auto-save of buffers not visiting files, right now? hw
2022-03-14 12:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-15 5:20 ` hw
2022-03-15 6:47 ` Jean Louis
2022-03-15 7:24 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-03-17 4:35 ` hw
2022-03-17 5:00 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-03-18 7:31 ` hw
2022-03-18 14:45 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-03-19 2:33 ` hw
2022-03-19 2:38 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-03-15 14:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-16 0:51 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-03-16 1:45 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-03-17 19:23 ` hw
2022-03-17 22:07 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-03-18 8:28 ` hw
2022-03-19 1:18 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-03-19 3:14 ` hw
2022-03-19 3:47 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-03-19 6:24 ` hw
2022-03-19 7:34 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-03-19 7:51 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-03-20 6:02 ` hw
2022-03-20 6:26 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-03-19 9:58 ` Michael Albinus [this message]
2022-03-20 6:36 ` hw
2022-03-20 7:04 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-03-21 16:22 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-03-20 7:29 ` tomas
2022-03-20 8:05 ` volatile /tmp [was: how to force auto-save of buffers not visiting files, right now?] tomas
2022-03-20 10:36 ` hw
2022-03-20 11:13 ` tomas
2022-03-21 3:41 ` hw
2022-03-21 5:53 ` tomas
2022-03-21 8:47 ` Michael Albinus
2022-03-20 9:57 ` how to force auto-save of buffers not visiting files, right now? Michael Albinus
2022-03-20 10:21 ` tomas
2022-03-20 10:19 ` hw
2022-03-20 10:30 ` tomas
2022-03-21 3:55 ` hw
2022-03-21 4:13 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-03-21 12:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-03-23 6:12 ` hw
2022-03-23 9:25 ` Michael Albinus
2022-03-20 0:21 ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-03-20 4:56 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-03-20 7:39 ` hw
2022-03-20 8:08 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-03-22 7:06 ` hw
2022-03-22 19:50 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-03-22 21:45 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2022-03-21 7:22 ` Jean Louis
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=87wngqclgk.fsf@gmx.de \
--to=michael.albinus@gmx.de \
--cc=help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org \
--cc=hw@adminart.net \
/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.