From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: When does emacs backup files? Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 21:44:42 +0100 Message-ID: References: <01812190-7de6-4215-a71e-a2ef1f18637f@l11g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> <396847B0-01D1-4CD4-A1CC-7D485395BC22@Web.DE> <87zkpqcvhi.fsf@mithlond.arda> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298234719 1533 80.91.229.12 (20 Feb 2011 20:45:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2011 20:45:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, orium To: Teemu Likonen Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Feb 20 21:45:14 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PrG9Y-0001k6-Pn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 21:45:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45371 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PrG9Y-0004i8-Cq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 15:45:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=42171 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PrG9A-0004hz-9v for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 15:44:49 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PrG98-0001pr-UX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 15:44:48 -0500 Original-Received: from fmmailgate03.web.de ([217.72.192.234]:53557) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PrG98-0001pU-OD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 15:44:46 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp08.web.de ( [172.20.5.216]) by fmmailgate03.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37C12189030D7; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 21:44:44 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [91.35.188.8] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp08.web.de with asmtp (WEB.DE 4.110 #2) id 1PrG96-0006Ut-00; Sun, 20 Feb 2011 21:44:44 +0100 In-Reply-To: <87zkpqcvhi.fsf@mithlond.arda> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19Z8HWakam+3gbZUfvKDBLNhImGPiALXoMvEXjh ynaHI1X9OpYP6Ms3XZGpS4hKddUV35Ov/9AG5KgPHQ+0fNao95 GdgreGuiH6dv+sc9J1Xw== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-Received-From: 217.72.192.234 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:79265 Archived-At: Am 20.02.2011 um 21:16 schrieb Teemu Likonen: >> (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. Ah, yes! I first introduced 'backup-by-copying t' when I saw that my =20 clever hard links changed a bit. Years later I found that block (a =20 larger one, actually) and adopted it =96 with the original comments =20 included. And that one comment is presumingly wrong... Thanks! I'll make an update to my init file. -- Greetings Pete These are my principles and if you don't like them... well, I have =20 others. - Groucho Marx