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: Tue, 03 Dec 2013 18:53:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87li01254o.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eh5t4ypo.fsf@alphaville.bos.redhat.com> (Nick Dokos's message of "Tue, 03 Dec 2013 12:43:31 -0500")
Hello Nick,
On 13-12-03 18:43 Nick Dokos wrote:
[...]
>
> The docstring for backup-directory-alist says
>
> ,----
> | For the common case of all backups going into one directory, the alist
> | should contain a single element pairing "." with the appropriate
> | directory name.
> `----
>
> FWIW, I tried
>
> (setq backup-directory-alist '(("." . "/home/nick/.emacs.d/backup-dir")))
>
> and it seems to work. I don't remember if I had to create the backup-dir
> beforehand.
>
> Nick
>
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.
Regards,
--
Alexander Baier
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-03 17:53 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 [this message]
2013-12-03 18:30 ` Nick Dokos
2013-12-03 19:29 ` Sebastien Vauban
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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