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From: exodus@mfgfoc.uucp (Greg Onufer)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs,gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: Re: symbolic links & GNU Emacs
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Date: 19 Oct 88 19:56:42 GMT
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From article <Oct.19.04.46.36.1988.22562@porthos.rutgers.edu>, by gaynor@porthos.rutgers.edu (Silver):
> 
> I got burned by breaking a symbolic link chain, by the way GNU Emacs saves
> files.  I edited a link, not realizing that it wasn't the file I had intended
> to edit.  When I went to save the file, emacs did it's usual antics of moving
> the previous contents to the backup file, and saved the buffer into a newly
> created file.  So, to avoid getting nuked in the future, I wrote a quickie

On page 87 of my GnuEmacs manual (Section 15.3.1.3), a variable named
"backup-by-copying-when-linked" is described.  I think you should have
a look at it.  (RTFM)

-Greg Onufer