Re: backup-by-copying-when-linked

[Elias Mårtenson]

On Mon, 31 Aug 2020, 03:24 Stefan Monnier, <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> wrote:

> I have to admit, I consider this default behaviour pretty rude.

In other circumstances, the other behavior is pretty rude as well.

While I consider the default Emacs behaviour to be appropriate, it is possible to detect that a file has hardlinks and warn if you're saving to such a file.

It may be useful to provide such functionality?