Re: backup files on mounted filesystems

[Michael Bane]

On 12 Apr 2013, at 18:52, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> From: Michael Bane <michael.bane@manchester.ac.uk>
>> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2013 17:43:44 +0000
>> 
>> Hi again & thanks for replies
>> 
>> I've not set work as a temp file directory (explicitly) - how would I check?
>> When I look I do see that once upon a time backups must have worked since 
>> there's a example.txt~ in there
> 
> "M-x load-library RET files.el RET", then instrument
> normal-backup-enable-predicate with Edebug, edit file in work/, type
> "C-x C-s", and step through that function to see what's going on.

Hi Eli and emac-ers

Sorry but I've no idea what Edebug is nor the instrumentation steps? 
NB I'm using the "-nw" version of emacs on a Mac

Yours, Michael