Re: long filename fools diff-backup?

[Kevin Rodgers]

Dan Jacobson wrote:

> RMS> but I can't guess what it is.  Can you debug it?
>
> I now believe maybe that if a .backups dir exists, diff-backup then
> doesn't check for xxxx~ style backups.  It thinks all backups are made
> by emacs, and doesn't look for simpler backup file names made by other
> programs... At least after loading my
> http://jidanni.org/comp/emacs.txt
>
> Perhaps try:
> mkdir .backups
> touch a a~
> wget  http://jidanni.org/comp/emacs.txt
> emacs -l emacs.txt . #which requires backup-dir.el


Cannot open load file: backup-dir.el

> put cursor on "a" and hit M-=


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Kevin Rodgers