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From: Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi>
To: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@web.de>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, orium <orium69@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: When does emacs backup files?
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 22:16:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zkpqcvhi.fsf@mithlond.arda> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <396847B0-01D1-4CD4-A1CC-7D485395BC22@Web.DE> (Peter Dyballa's message of "Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:54:21 +0100")

* 2011-02-20 20:54 (+0100), Peter Dyballa wrote:

> (setq auto-save-interval 125)
> (setq make-backup-files		t ;backup my files
>       backup-by-copying		t ;don't clobber symlinks

I think backup-by-copying variable has to do with _hard_ links, not
symlinks.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-20 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-18 23:57 When does emacs backup files? orium
2011-02-20 19:54 ` Peter Dyballa
2011-02-20 20:16   ` Teemu Likonen [this message]
2011-02-20 20:44     ` Peter Dyballa
2011-02-23  4:44       ` Kevin Rodgers
2011-02-23 20:55         ` Peter Dyballa
2011-02-21  5:10 ` Le Wang

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