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Emacs backup woes with "b~"         


Author: Joe
Date: Sep 5, 2008 19:08

Hey I can't seem to figure out why emacs is saving files in the form
"b~myfile.adb" in my directories.

I have the following in my .emacs

(setq
backup-by-copying t
backup-directory-alist
'(("." . "~/.emacs.d/.emacs-backups"))
delete-old-versions t
kept-new-versions 3
kept-old-versions 2
version-control t)

The "b~*" files are created right after I compile.

Thanks,

Joe
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Re: Emacs backup woes with "b~"         


Author: Pascal J. Bourguignon
Date: Sep 5, 2008 21:06

Joe gmail.com> writes:
> Hey I can't seem to figure out why emacs is saving files in the form
> "b~myfile.adb" in my directories.
>
> I have the following in my .emacs
>
> (setq
> backup-by-copying t
> backup-directory-alist
> '(("." . "~/.emacs.d/.emacs-backups"))
> delete-old-versions t
> kept-new-versions 3
> kept-old-versions 2
> version-control t)
>
> The "b~*" files are created right after I compile.

Perhaps you are working on some inferior "OS" from Microsoft, or on some
inferior file system designed by same company?
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Re: Emacs backup woes with "b~"         


Author: Joe
Date: Sep 5, 2008 21:26

On Sep 6, 12:06 am, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
wrote:
> Joe gmail.com> writes:
>> Hey I can't seem to figure out why emacs is saving files in the form
>> "b~myfile.adb" in my directories.
>
>> I have the following in my .emacs
>
>> (setq
>>  backup-by-copying t
>>  backup-directory-alist
>>  '(("." . "~/.emacs.d/.emacs-backups"))
>>  delete-old-versions t
>>  kept-new-versions 3
>>  kept-old-versions 2
>>  version-control t)
>
>> The "b~*" files are created right after I compile.
>
> Perhaps you are working on some inferior "OS" from Microsoft, or on some ...
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Re: Emacs backup woes with "b~"         


Author: Eli Zaretskii
Date: Sep 6, 2008 00:06

> From: Joe gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 19:08:37 -0700 (PDT)
>
> Hey I can't seem to figure out why emacs is saving files in the form
> "b~myfile.adb" in my directories.
>
> I have the following in my .emacs
>
> (setq
> backup-by-copying t
> backup-directory-alist
> '(("." . "~/.emacs.d/.emacs-backups"))
> delete-old-versions t
> kept-new-versions 3
> kept-old-versions 2
> version-control t)
>
> The "b~*" files are created right after I compile.

Do you have any real evidence that these files are created by Emacs?
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Re: Emacs backup woes with "b~"         


Author: Pascal J. Bourguignon
Date: Sep 6, 2008 03:59

Joe gmail.com> writes:
>>> The "b~*" files are created right after I compile.
>>
>> Perhaps you are working on some inferior "OS" from Microsoft, or on some
>> inferior file system designed by same company?
>
> Nope, Ubuntu 8.04. Sorry forgot some other stuff. I'm using emacs
> 23.0.60.1

What does df -T show?

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Re: Emacs backup woes with "b~"         


Author: Allan Gottlieb
Date: Sep 6, 2008 06:12

At Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:08:37 -0700 (PDT) Joe gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey I can't seem to figure out why emacs is saving files in the form
> "b~myfile.adb" in my directories.

Those are not regular emacs backups. They are produced by the ada
compiler.

allan
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Re: Emacs backup woes with "b~"         


Author: Joe
Date: Sep 6, 2008 06:31

On Sep 6, 3:06 am, Eli Zaretskii gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Joe gmail.com>
>> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 19:08:37 -0700 (PDT)
>
>> Hey I can't seem to figure out why emacs is saving files in the form
>> "b~myfile.adb" in my directories.
>
>> I have the following in my .emacs
>
>> (setq
>>  backup-by-copying t
>>  backup-directory-alist
>>  '(("." . "~/.emacs.d/.emacs-backups"))
>>  delete-old-versions t
>>  kept-new-versions 3
>>  kept-old-versions 2
>>  version-control t)
>
>> The "b~*" files are created right after I compile.
> ...
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