Re: creating backups in temporary directories

[David Kastrup]

"Chris Moore" <address@hidden> writes:

> I quite often want to email diffs of files I don't have write access
> to, so I visit the file, write it to /tmp, then edit it, save it,
> and go to /tmp to run diff between the file and its backup.

That's not what backups are for.  Why don't you save under a different
name?  That's what C-x C-w is for.

> Suggestions:
> 1) make that the default value - why not write backups in /tmp?

Because making a "backup" for a file in a place that is regularly
cleaned out is creating an illusion of security.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum