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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
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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

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