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From: | Jeff Mincy <mincy AT rcn DOT com> |
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Date: | Wed, 9 Mar 2005 17:34:39 -0500 |
To: | cygwin AT cygwin DOT com |
Subject: | Re: File losing ownership |
In-Reply-To: | <Pine.GSO.4.61.0503091236380.18298@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> |
References: | <Pine DOT GSO DOT 4 DOT 61 DOT 0503091236380 DOT 18298 AT slinky DOT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> |
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu wrote: > On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Colin JN Breame wrote: > >> I have a file such that: >> >> $ ls -l test >> -rw-r--r-- 1 Administrators None 6 Mar 9 17:00 test >> >> I open it and save in emacs. >> >> $ ls -l test >> -rw-r--r-- 1 colin None 7 Mar 9 17:00 test >> >> Is this a bug? > > This is a design "feature" in emacs ... > > This, BTW, is one of the reasons you can't use emacs as crontab editor, or > anything else that expects the file to be written in-place. > Igor > P.S. I think I'm being a bit unfair ("I'm a VIm guy"), and you *can* > configure emacs to write files in-place -- it's just not done by default. This is controlled by setting backup-by-copying in your .emacs. Then you can do crontab -e just like the vim guys... -jeff -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
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