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Re: Redifine make-backup-file-name has no effect
From: |
Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: Redifine make-backup-file-name has no effect |
Date: |
Wed, 31 Oct 2001 14:52:36 -0700 (MST) |
> Thanks, Jan. Alas, I'm not sure what the right fix is here because
> I'm not sure from the docs if a make-backup-file-name-function is
> supposed to return a file name including versions or not.
Definitely not. (The documentation of make-backup-file-name
says this clearly.)
There are
> indirect hints that it might have to return file names with versions,
Where are those "hints"? We need to fix that text not to give
this implication.
> --- 2411,2417 ----
> (if handler
> (funcall handler 'find-backup-file-name fn)
> (if (or (eq version-control 'never)
> + (not (null make-backup-file-name-function))
> ;; We don't support numbered backups on plain MS-DOS
> ;; when long file names are unavailable.
> (and (eq system-type 'ms-dos)
That change is not correct--please don't install it.