From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: When does emacs backup files? Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 21:44:44 -0700 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298436313 17238 80.91.229.12 (23 Feb 2011 04:45:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2011 04:45:13 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 23 05:45:09 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 1Ps6b5-0005I3-Vp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 05:45:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34598 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ps6b5-000711-GV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:45:07 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=46976 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ps6aj-00070w-Hj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:44:46 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ps6ai-0005w1-G9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:44:45 -0500 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:52409) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ps6ai-0005vs-Ag for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Feb 2011 23:44:44 -0500 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ps6ag-0005B8-Dj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 05:44:42 +0100 Original-Received: from c-24-8-96-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.8.96.241]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 05:44:42 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-24-8-96-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 23 Feb 2011 05:44:42 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-8-96-241.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.4; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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:79374 Archived-At: On 2/20/11 1:44 PM, Peter Dyballa wrote: > > 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 clever hard > links changed a bit. Years later I found that block (a larger one, actually) and > adopted it – with the original comments included. And that one comment is > presumingly wrong... > > Thanks! I'll make an update to my init file. See the backup-by-copying-when-linked, -when-mismatch, and -when-priveleged-mismatch variables for finer control over backups. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA