Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com X-IronPort-AV: i="3.90,151,1107752400"; d="scan'208"; a="10754631:sNHT20554646" From: Jeff Mincy MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16943.31231.973592.935379@telesterion.delphioutpost.com> Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 17:34:39 -0500 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: File losing ownership In-Reply-To: References: On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, pechtcha@cs.nyu.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/