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Re: Backing up abbrev_defs?
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Sharon Kimble |
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Re: Backing up abbrev_defs? |
Date: |
Tue, 30 Jul 2019 16:12:17 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com>
>> Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 14:37:57 +0100
>>
>> I want to backup my abbrev_defs file exactly the same as everything else is
>> backed up, i.e. when
>> there is a change to it, a backup is triggered to save it in
>> ~/.emacs.d/backups. Although the
>> position is slightly complicated as its not normally open in any buffer, so
>> the backup would
>> presumably have to be triggered on the source files changing.
>>
>> I've googled but haven't found any instances of it being backed up, so there
>> isn't anything
>> seemingly available for me to hack from or with. So can some kind soul help
>> with some working
>> code, or guidance to a non-programmer to achieve this please?
>
> I don't understand the question. Are you saying that when you save
> your abbrevs, Emacs doesn't create a backup file for abbrev_defs, as
> it does for any other file you save?
No! No backup created from it at all! Which I found was rather strange, hence
my request.
Thanks
Sharon.
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