On 2000-May-26 04:37:48 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>> Such editors are broken. What if the file is a symlink ? IMHO
>> open() write() write() write() ftruncate() close() is the only way.
>
>If that is the only way, then emacs is of course broken. (And I
>disagree - I use emacs every day...)
The behaviour in emacs is (of course) customisable. Check out
'info emacs Backup Copying'. You can pick whether the backup
is the physical original, or a copy of it. (Emacs also understands
symlinks, hardlinks and differences in ownership).
Peter
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