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["Andrey G. Grozin" <address@hidden>]

On Fri, 10 Mar 2006, Henri Lesourd wrote:
> Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
> > For every file.tm, texmacs creates a backup file called file.tm~ . The
> > default configuration is that file.tm~ is stored in the same directory
> > as that of file.tm . How can I configure texmacs so that all the
> > backup files are stored in a separate directory? Is there any option
> > like that in the first place? If not, do you think this option
> > qualifies for a wish list bug? I can file the bug myself, but not sure
> > whether such a functionality is already in place or not!
> It depends. Traditionnaly (i.e. emacs), the ~ files
> are stored in the same directory. As far as the
> feature you propose is concerned, I'm pretty sure
> it doesn't exist yet in TeXmacs, so feel free to
> fill a wish. As for me, I hate these ~ files, so
> I use another feature that disables their creation
> in the first place, namely Edit/Preferences/Autosave/Disable.
I use emacs all the time, and I find *~ files extremely useful (if I 
forgot what changes I made last time, I just do
diff foo~ foo
). I see a problem with the proposed feature to put backup files to a 
separate directory. Different files from different directories can have 
identical names, and the backup file from editing one of them can 
overwrite the backup file from another file. I think this is not 
acceptable. With the current (emacs-like) behaviour, this is not possible, 
because all files in a single directory have distinct names, of course.

Andrey