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emacs should warn before editing a backup~ file~
From: |
Dan Jacobson |
Subject: |
emacs should warn before editing a backup~ file~ |
Date: |
29 Jan 2001 02:17:04 +0800 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 |
"Why didn't my changes take effect? Spoiled the presentation,
and the boss wasn't amused" I said to myself wistfully.
No wonder, emacs has let me go ahead and edit a backup file without
warning. No wonder I now have a "~~" file:
Directory /etc/importaint/
config.fetching config.fetching~ config.fetching~~
I must have mistyped it in, or mis-selected it in dired. I didn't see
the tiny tilde and thought I was editing config.fetching. Emacs ought
to have a variable, on by default, to warn upon find-file [not
read-only] of various backup files...
[uh oh, I bet Eli will defend the status quo here as usuual :-) ]
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- emacs should warn before editing a backup~ file~,
Dan Jacobson <=