Re: Autosaved file is not being created (sometimes)

["John E. Davis" <davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul Lamb <pal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Using jed-0.99.16-6 on RHEL5.1 
>    if I edit a file 1.qqq, an autosaved version 1.qqq~ is created.
>    if I edit a file 1.tmp, an autosaved version 1.tmp~ is created.
>
> Using jed-0.99.18-5 on RHEL5.1 
>    if I edit a file 1.qqq, an autosaved version 1.qqq~ is created.
>    if I edit a file 1.tmp, an autosaved file version is NOT created.

In version 0.99-18, files of the form /tmp/foo and /whatever/bar.tmp are
regarded as temporary files and not backed up.  You can put

define make_backup_filename(dir, file)
{
   return strcat (dir, file, "~");
}

in your .jedrc file if you do not like this behavior.

Thanks,
--John




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