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Re: Problems with backup-by-copying and auto-compression-mode
From: |
Kai Großjohann |
Subject: |
Re: Problems with backup-by-copying and auto-compression-mode |
Date: |
Mon, 15 Jul 2002 14:02:26 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.090007 (Oort Gnus v0.07) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) |
"arthur.chereau" <arthur.chereau@voila.fr> writes:
> I finally found why I had this stange behavior: there were a (setq
> file-name-handler-alist nil) after (auto-compression-mode
> 1). Placing file-name-handler-alist before auto-compression-mode
> made it work.
Don't do that :-) auto-compression-mode makes entries in
file-name-handler-alist, so clearly frobbing that variable will do
strange things.
> I still have a problem with (setq backup-by-copying t) only working
> for root, not for other users. I tried setting
> backup-by-copying-when-mismatch but it didn't helped.
Hm. Can you reproduce this with "emacs -q -no-site-file", then
setting the variable manually?
kai
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