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- From: jf41+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jonathan R. Ferro)
- Subject: Re: A Bug! (undesired feature??)
- Message-ID: <4eQ8KFO00VpdAIYrkf@andrew.cmu.edu>
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- Distribution: gnu
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 14:34:57 GMT
- Approved: bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu
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- davis@tonedeaf.lanl.gov (Scott Davis) writes:
- > Since the foo and bar are linked, whatever I add to bar should be
- > added to foo, but foo is unchanged. Instead, "bar~" (the backup file)
- > and foo are linked, and bar is a new file!
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- This can be fixed by putting "(setq backup-by-copying t)" in your .emacs
- file. It sounds like you discovered this by reading the manual, but I
- wasn't sure by the way you described it so I wrote it out explicity
- here. This is usually the second little tweak I give out to help new
- users, right after "(setq inhibit-local-variables t)".
-
- Any chance these two changes might become the defaults?
-
- --
- Jon Ferro MIT Transportation Modelling Research Center (TMRC)
- jf41+@andrew.cmu.edu "We can hack it!"
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