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Re: Redifine make-backup-file-name has no effect


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Redifine make-backup-file-name has no effect
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 14:28:13 +0200

> From: Jan Djarv <Jan.Djarv@epl.ericsson.se>
> Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 10:23:14 +0200 (MEST)
> 
> In emacs 19 and 20 theses functions worked fine to make backup file name to be
> .BAK.file instead of file~.  In 21.1 these do nothing, file~ is always created
> regardless of what make-backup-file-name is or what the variable
> make-backup-file-name-function is set to.

Before Emacs 21.1, redefining these functions was dangerous and had
subtle misfeatures as side-effects.  Emacs 21.1 introduces
user-customizable options `backup-directory-alist' and
`make-backup-file-name-function'; please use them instead of what you
did before.

If you already tried to customize `make-backup-file-name-function' and
it didn't work, please send the details (how did you define the
replacement function, how did you set the value of
`make-backup-file-name-function' to point to your replacement, and
what did Emacs do in response.



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