vemula@pluto.cs.ucf.edu (Udaya Bhaskar Vemulapati) (02/15/91)
I use Gnu Emacs 18.55 and I noticed that if you edit any file in "/tmp" directory, no back-ups are produced. I then went back to the Emacs lisp file "files.el" and saw some code that was actually checking whether the first 5 characters are "/tmp" before creating a backup file. Does any one know why it was set up like that ?
Dan_Jacobson@ATT.COM (02/15/91)
>>>>> 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.
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