From: "Sebastien Vauban" <sva-news-D0wtAvR13HarG/iDocfnWg@public.gmane.org>
To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file
Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 20:29:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8638m9d97i.fsf@somewhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87a9gh4wk1.fsf@alphaville.bos.redhat.com
Nick Dokos,
Nick Dokos wrote:
> Alexander Baier <lexi.baier-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> writes:
>
>> I used to set up backup-directory-alist the same way you have, but
>> changed it, when I noticed emacs putting backups of files I edited as
>> root into that directory. That was something I did not want to do.
>>
>
> OK - I haven't lived with this setup long enough to know better.
>
> On another subject:
>
>> (setq backup-directory-alist
>> '(("/home/delexi/*" . "/home/delexi/.emacs.d/backup")))
>
> the docstring says that the car of each dotted pair in the alist is a
> regexp: I presume an emacs regexp, not a shell glob pattern. So the
> setting should be
>
> (setq backup-directory-alist '(("/home/delexi/.*" . "/some/dir")))
>
> - no?
Yes, I do have (for years) the following:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(setq backup-directory-alist
'((".*" . "~/.emacs.d/backups/")))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Emacs will `make-directory' it, if necessary.
Best regards,
Seb
--
Sebastien Vauban
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-03 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-02 11:21 org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file Rainer Stengele
2013-12-02 11:31 ` Sebastien Vauban
2013-12-02 12:06 ` Carsten Dominik
2013-12-02 15:37 ` Alexander Baier
2013-12-02 19:11 ` Nicolas Richard
2013-12-03 8:33 ` Johann Spies
2013-12-03 12:58 ` Alexander Baier
2013-12-03 17:23 ` Johann Spies
2013-12-03 17:37 ` Alexander Baier
2013-12-03 17:43 ` Nick Dokos
2013-12-03 17:53 ` Alexander Baier
2013-12-03 18:30 ` Nick Dokos
2013-12-03 19:29 ` Sebastien Vauban [this message]
2013-12-04 9:43 ` Alexander Baier
2013-12-03 18:15 ` org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file (solved backups) Johann Spies
2013-12-06 14:41 ` org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file Johann Spies
2013-12-07 10:48 ` Alexander Baier
2013-12-04 8:25 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-12-04 11:26 ` Rainer Stengele
2013-12-04 13:16 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-12-12 14:48 ` Rainer Stengele
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