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Jerry Feldman wrote: > On 12/26/2008 10:08 PM, David Kramer wrote: >> jbk wrote: >> > Yes he is talking about a file that has more than 1 link. The way emacs > works, is that it renames the original file by appending a tilde (~). > So, when you save, you are saving a completely new file. In emacs, this > is called version control. You can set version-control in emacs to make > numbered backups. > > The solution to this is to set the emacs variable, backup-by-copying to > non-nil. The way to do this from the emacs minibuffer is " > > M-x set-variable". This emacs command will allow you to set the > variable. It can also be done in your ~/.emacs file. It took me a while > to remember this. Way back when I first learned emacs ('82). > If I change that globally what effect will that have on all the saves? Will a backup still be created? I was going to try version control but I didn't have the SVC backend installed. I may have the acronim incorrect for the version control. I used to use it a few distro updates back. Jim KR
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