Re: Efs hacking.

Michael Sperber <sperber-jNDFPZUTrfQQDnmTUQnR1uqEdJ8o/[email protected]> Thu, 08 Jul 2004 10:55:02 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.efs.general
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>>>>> "Kai" =3D=3D Kai Grossjohann <[email protected]> writes:

Kai> "OCallaghan, Timothy (ELS)" <T.OCallaghan-dUsxN/C1/n1Wk0Htik3J/[email protected]> writes:

>> One other thing. Is it possible to configure efs to create local
>> backup files of remote files? Angeftp allows this as far as i
>> remember, and i have found it useful in the past to have local
>> backups.

Kai> Emacs has a variable backup-directory-alist, which allows you to
Kai> specify the location of the backup file, depending on its name.  So
Kai> you could say that backups of files matching "^[^:]+:/" are to be
Kai> placed in /tmp, say.  I think XEmacs has a similar feature, but the
Kai> variable has a different name.

Great hint!  In fact, it's called the same in XEmacs.

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