Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnewse!danj1 From: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: Strange behaviour of back-up Message-ID: Date: 15 Feb 91 04:47:50 GMT References: <1991Feb14.230011.3434@osceola.cs.ucf.edu> Sender: danj1@cbnewse.att.com (Dan Jacobson) Reply-To: Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Distribution: usa Organization: AT&T-BL, Naperville IL, USA Lines: 13 In-Reply-To: vemula@pluto.cs.ucf.edu's message of 14 Feb 91 23:00:11 GMT >>>>> On 14 Feb 91 23:00:11 GMT, vemula@pluto.cs.ucf.edu (Udaya Bhaskar Vemulapati) said: Udaya> I use Gnu Emacs 18.55 and I noticed that if you edit any file Udaya> in "/tmp" directory, no back-ups are produced. I then went back Udaya> to the Emacs lisp file "files.el" and saw some code that was Udaya> actually checking whether the first 5 characters are "/tmp" Udaya> before creating a backup file. Don't you just hate that? I was told a quick fix is to write things to /usr/tmp instead... Sure hope this is fixed soon, no matter how well intended. -- Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM Naperville IL USA +1 708-979-6364