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From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann)
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Problems with backup-by-copying and auto-compression-mode
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:02:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vafznwtnqr1.fsf@INBOX.tok.lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <GZAC0S$EE56132A79C24CEAD84DB0CFEE9DD56D@voila.fr> ("arthur.chereau"'s message of "Mon, 15 Jul 2002 12:05:16 +0200")

"arthur.chereau" <arthur.chereau@voila.fr> writes:

> I finally found why I had this stange behavior:  there were a (setq
> file-name-handler-alist nil) after (auto-compression-mode
> 1). Placing file-name-handler-alist before auto-compression-mode
> made it work.

Don't do that :-)  auto-compression-mode makes entries in
file-name-handler-alist, so clearly frobbing that variable will do
strange things.

> I still have a problem with (setq backup-by-copying t) only working
> for root, not for other users. I tried setting
> backup-by-copying-when-mismatch but it didn't helped.

Hm.  Can you reproduce this with "emacs -q -no-site-file", then
setting the variable manually?

kai
-- 
A large number of young women don't trust men with beards.  (BFBS Radio)

       reply	other threads:[~2002-07-15 12:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <GZAC0S$EE56132A79C24CEAD84DB0CFEE9DD56D@voila.fr>
2002-07-15 12:02 ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
     [not found] <GZ8X5V$A2183B93A3F3C8B0D86CBE7EB0448623@voila.fr>
2002-07-14 19:26 ` Problems with backup-by-copying and auto-compression-mode Kai Großjohann
     [not found] <GZ7KN5$5DF507279508F5F253C76A78892920A8@voila.fr>
2002-07-14 14:13 ` Kai Großjohann

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