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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2016-02-13 15:36:38 +0200 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2016-02-13 15:36:38 +0200 |
| commit | 53ca1e1acff83d5d1a55aa8c04071ceebf21b307 (patch) | |
| tree | 5ec984b9b5c18f8d8c99809a365d13629b7b0505 | |
| parent | d97f522d3d3fa18eba2962d53e6c197ace938cc2 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-53ca1e1acff83d5d1a55aa8c04071ceebf21b307.tar.gz | |
Index tilde characters in names of backup files
* doc/emacs/files.texi (Backup Names): Improve indexing.
(Bug#22625)
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diff --git a/doc/emacs/files.texi b/doc/emacs/files.texi index 3d5562dcc47..ab20d4a18f9 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/files.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/files.texi @@ -530,11 +530,16 @@ another from the newly saved contents if you save again. @node Backup Names @subsubsection Single or Numbered Backups +@cindex backup file names +@cindex names of backup files +@cindex @file{~}, in names of backup files +@cindex tilde (@file{~}) at end of backup file name When Emacs makes a backup file, its name is normally constructed by appending @samp{~} to the file name being edited; thus, the backup file for @file{eval.c} would be @file{eval.c~}. +@cindex @file{~/.emacs.d/%backup%~} If access control stops Emacs from writing backup files under the usual names, it writes the backup file as @file{~/.emacs.d/%backup%~}. Only one such file can exist, so only the most recently made such |