On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/