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From: Alexander Baier <lexi.baier@gmail.com>
To: Nick Dokos <ndokos@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file
Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2013 10:43:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87haap0x4h.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a9gh4wk1.fsf@alphaville.bos.redhat.com> (Nick Dokos's message of "Tue, 03 Dec 2013 13:30:06 -0500")

On 13-12-03 19:30 Nick Dokos wrote:
> Alexander Baier <lexi.baier@gmail.com> 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?
>
> Nick
>
Yes, you are right.  Although "/home/delexi/*" is a valid regexp, it
sure is not what I meant to express.  As you said, "/home/delexi/.*" is
the way I wanted to go.

Thanks,
-- 
 Alexander Baier

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-12-04  9:44 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
2013-12-04  9:43               ` Alexander Baier [this message]
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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