Re: Problem when file system is full.
On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 07:17, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
The default XEmacs save strategy is (1) rename the original to serve
as backup; (2) write the buffer into the new file. As far as I know
XEmacs does not attempt to overwrite existing data; the data is
preserved under a different name.
IMHO, this produces somewhat unexpected (to me, anyway) results. When I
edit a file, I want to change its contents, not modes or ownerships.
Would it be possible to make `backup-by-copying-when-mismatch' default
to t?
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\/ille Skyttä
scop at xemacs.org