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From: "Elias Mårtenson" <lokedhs@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Mario Lang <mlang@blind.guru>, emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: backup-by-copying-when-linked
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 10:51:10 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADtN0WLbuwQzq2V-uPp-fW5GZrFFH51kZk6xFaok1HDzoS-48Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwveenoym5z.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

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On Mon, 31 Aug 2020, 03:24 Stefan Monnier, <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> > I have to admit, I consider this default behaviour pretty rude.
>
> In other circumstances, the other behavior is pretty rude as well.


While I consider the default Emacs behaviour to be appropriate, it is
possible to detect that a file has hardlinks and warn if you're saving to
such a file.

It may be useful to provide such functionality?

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-31  2:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-30 19:15 backup-by-copying-when-linked Mario Lang
2020-08-30 19:22 ` backup-by-copying-when-linked Stefan Monnier
2020-08-31  2:51   ` Elias Mårtenson [this message]
2020-08-31  3:15     ` backup-by-copying-when-linked Stefan Monnier
2020-08-31  3:46       ` backup-by-copying-when-linked Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-31  3:57         ` backup-by-copying-when-linked Stefan Monnier

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