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From: "Fraga, Eric" <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@skimble.plus.com>
Cc: "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: backup of abbrev_defs
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2019 11:09:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tv5x51rf.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87woatew1n.fsf@skimble.plus.com> (Sharon Kimble's message of "Wed, 18 Dec 2019 11:02:28 +0000")

On Wednesday, 18 Dec 2019 at 11:02, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> I've tried using a symlink to the file held in another directory, but
> when I restarted emacs the symlink wasn't followed and it created a new
> abbrev_def file from somewhere, I don't know where. 

This is strange.  I have my .abbrev_defs symlinked to elsewhere and it
works just fine.  I've been doing this for years, probably from emacs
v22 onwards (but that's just a guess).

To answer your original question, I use version control (e.g. src or
git) to manage that file along with other dotfiles.

-- 
Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50, Org release_9.3-34-g2eee3c

  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-18 11:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-18 11:02 backup of abbrev_defs Sharon Kimble
2019-12-18 11:09 ` Fraga, Eric [this message]
2019-12-18 12:41   ` Neil Jerram

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