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"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
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