From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neal Becker Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: edit version-controlled, hard-linked file Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:40:12 -0400 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216294829 28032 80.91.229.12 (17 Jul 2008 11:40:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:40:29 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jul 17 13:41:17 2008 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 4.50) id 1KJRqr-0002z8-0B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:40:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34792 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJRpy-0003y2-F4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:39:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJRpg-0003xx-Qz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:39:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KJRpe-0003xR-MQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:39:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53076 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KJRpe-0003xO-H7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:39:34 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:55609 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KJRpe-00087z-6p for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 07:39:34 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KJRpc-00039c-NO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:39:32 +0000 Original-Received: from 139.85.239.127 ([139.85.239.127]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:39:32 +0000 Original-Received: from ndbecker2 by 139.85.239.127 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2008 11:39:32 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 8 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 139.85.239.127 User-Agent: KNode/0.10.9 X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:55673 Archived-At: If I edit a version-controlled, hard-linked file, no backup is made (cause it's version-controlled), and the results is the editing does _not_ break the hard link. Sometimes that's what I want. Other times it's not. I don't know how to get emacs to break the hard link. Any ideas (or do we need yet another variable for this?)