Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file
Am 02.12.2013 12:21, schrieb Rainer Stengele: All, last week I played around with org-indent-mode in my biggest (37.000 lines) org file. 3 days later I detected that most of the file was corrupted. WHy so late? Using the agenda I only saw the todos and did not recognise the corrupted structures. Most * items had been placed at the beginning of the line and therefore now became headlines. I do not know how this happened. I am not sure if I myself was the reason somehow. Anyway I had to spend a fair amount of work to get the old file format from subversion and insert the changes since the corruption. This is just a warning to have backups at hand before changing to org-indent mode. Then immediately and check often the contents of the file until you are sure all is running well. Maybe someone has an idea. I will try to convert again later but then be much more careful. Rainer Hi, I believe I found the function that corrupted most of my buffer. Trying to convert the indented org contents to unindented I discovered that delete-whitespace-rectangle did a nice job. Imagine you see something like this, cursor at ^. *** headline0 CLOCK: [2013-10-11 Fr 16:45]--[2013-10-11 Fr 17:00] = 0:15 ^CLOCK: [2013-10-01 Di 14:30]--[2013-10-01 Di 23:00] = 8:30 CLOCK: [2013-10-01 Di 09:45]--[2013-10-01 Di 10:15] = 0:30 CLOCK: [2013-09-30 Mo 13:30]--[2013-09-30 Mo 17:00] = 3:30 headline1 headline2 calling delete-whitespace-rectangle results in: *** headline0 CLOCK: [2013-10-11 Fr 16:45]--[2013-10-11 Fr 17:00] = 0:15 CLOCK: [2013-10-01 Di 14:30]--[2013-10-01 Di 23:00] = 8:30 CLOCK: [2013-10-01 Di 09:45]--[2013-10-01 Di 10:15] = 0:30 CLOCK: [2013-09-30 Mo 13:30]--[2013-09-30 Mo 17:00] = 3:30 headline1 headline2 Looks good. Cycling headline2 shows, that all item lists which began with * are now at the beginning of the line and therefore became headlines level 1! That of course is only visible after cycling. The mistake is maybe using the wrong rectangle, but anyway it changes the invisible buffer contents. Rainer
Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file
Hello Johann, I can't quite follow you. I was under the impression that your issue has been resolved. If that is not the case, you might want to share the relevant code in your init file here. On 2013-12-06 15:41 Johann Spies wrote: Hello Alexander, Thanks for your attention. The message I sent earlier was of my experience on my work computer. I have now tried the same on my home computer. The files on both edited was in /home/js/Dropbox/orgmode. I have also edited ~/.emacs and saved it. that is strange. I cannot remember doing something else besides putting the mentioned code into my init file. I can only think of these trivial reason why this does not work for you: - Did you evaluate the code or restarted your emacs? I have killed and restarted emacs. How do I evaluate (reload) .emacs when emacs is running? - Are the files you are editing somewhere under /home/js/? - Did you really edit and save a file since adding the code to your init file? - In case you are editing files under version control: Did you turn on vc-make-backup-files? HTH, -- Alexander Baier On 13-12-03 09:33 Johann Spies wrote: Thanks for sharing this. However, after adding this to my ~/.emacs I do not see anything appearing in my .emacs.d/backup directory. #+begin_src emacs-lisp (setq make-backup-files t) (setq backup-directory-alist '((/home/js/* . /home/js/.emacs.d/backup))) (setq backup-by-copying t ; don't use symlinks delete-old-versions t; don't ask me about deleting backups kept-new-versions 20 kept-old-versions 5 version-control t) ; use versioned backups #+end_src Regards Johann On 2 December 2013 17:37, Alexander Baier lexi.ba...@gmail.com wrote: On 13-12-02 12:21 Rainer Stengele wrote: All, last week I played around with org-indent-mode in my biggest (37.000 lines) org file. 3 days later I detected that most of the file was corrupted. WHy so late? Using the agenda I only saw the todos and did not recognise the corrupted structures. Most * items had been placed at the beginning of the line and therefore now became headlines. I do not know how this happened. I am not sure if I myself was the reason somehow. Anyway I had to spend a fair amount of work to get the old file format from subversion and insert the changes since the corruption. This is just a warning to have backups at hand before changing to org-indent mode. Then immediately and check often the contents of the file until you are sure all is running well. Maybe someone has an idea. I will try to convert again later but then be much more careful. Rainer FWIW, I have the following snippet in my init file, that uses emacs' build-in backup machanism to save me from such things. As emacs stuffs them all in one central location, I do not have to worry about polluting my filesystem. #+begin_src emacs-lisp (setq make-backup-files t) (setq backup-directory-alist '((/home/delexi/* . /home/delexi/.emacs.d/backup))) (setq backup-by-copying t ; don't use symlinks delete-old-versions t; don't ask me about deleting backups kept-new-versions 20 kept-old-versions 5 version-control t) ; use versioned backups #+end_src If you want to make backups from files under version control, you also have to set the following: #+begin_src emacs-lisp (setq vc-make-backup-files t) #+end_src This already saved me a couple of times. Regards, -- Alexander Baier Regards, -- Alexander Baier
Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file
Hello Alexander, Thanks for your attention. The message I sent earlier was of my experience on my work computer. I have now tried the same on my home computer. The files on both edited was in /home/js/Dropbox/orgmode. I have also edited ~/.emacs and saved it. that is strange. I cannot remember doing something else besides putting the mentioned code into my init file. I can only think of these trivial reason why this does not work for you: - Did you evaluate the code or restarted your emacs? I have killed and restarted emacs. How do I evaluate (reload) .emacs when emacs is running? - Are the files you are editing somewhere under /home/js/? - Did you really edit and save a file since adding the code to your init file? - In case you are editing files under version control: Did you turn on vc-make-backup-files? HTH, -- Alexander Baier On 13-12-03 09:33 Johann Spies wrote: Thanks for sharing this. However, after adding this to my ~/.emacs I do not see anything appearing in my .emacs.d/backup directory. #+begin_src emacs-lisp (setq make-backup-files t) (setq backup-directory-alist '((/home/js/* . /home/js/.emacs.d/backup))) (setq backup-by-copying t ; don't use symlinks delete-old-versions t; don't ask me about deleting backups kept-new-versions 20 kept-old-versions 5 version-control t) ; use versioned backups #+end_src Regards Johann On 2 December 2013 17:37, Alexander Baier lexi.ba...@gmail.com wrote: On 13-12-02 12:21 Rainer Stengele wrote: All, last week I played around with org-indent-mode in my biggest (37.000 lines) org file. 3 days later I detected that most of the file was corrupted. WHy so late? Using the agenda I only saw the todos and did not recognise the corrupted structures. Most * items had been placed at the beginning of the line and therefore now became headlines. I do not know how this happened. I am not sure if I myself was the reason somehow. Anyway I had to spend a fair amount of work to get the old file format from subversion and insert the changes since the corruption. This is just a warning to have backups at hand before changing to org-indent mode. Then immediately and check often the contents of the file until you are sure all is running well. Maybe someone has an idea. I will try to convert again later but then be much more careful. Rainer FWIW, I have the following snippet in my init file, that uses emacs' build-in backup machanism to save me from such things. As emacs stuffs them all in one central location, I do not have to worry about polluting my filesystem. #+begin_src emacs-lisp (setq make-backup-files t) (setq backup-directory-alist '((/home/delexi/* . /home/delexi/.emacs.d/backup))) (setq backup-by-copying t ; don't use symlinks delete-old-versions t; don't ask me about deleting backups kept-new-versions 20 kept-old-versions 5 version-control t) ; use versioned backups #+end_src If you want to make backups from files under version control, you also have to set the following: #+begin_src emacs-lisp (setq vc-make-backup-files t) #+end_src This already saved me a couple of times. Regards, -- Alexander Baier -- Because experiencing your loyal love is better than life itself, my lips will praise you. (Psalm 63:3)
Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file
Hello, Rainer Stengele rainer.steng...@online.de writes: last week I played around with org-indent-mode in my biggest (37.000 lines) org file. 3 days later I detected that most of the file was corrupted. WHy so late? Using the agenda I only saw the todos and did not recognise the corrupted structures. Most * items had been placed at the beginning of the line and therefore now became headlines. I do not know how this happened. I am not sure if I myself was the reason somehow. Anyway I had to spend a fair amount of work to get the old file format from subversion and insert the changes since the corruption. This is just a warning to have backups at hand before changing to org-indent mode. Then immediately and check often the contents of the file until you are sure all is running well. Maybe someone has an idea. I will try to convert again later but then be much more careful. For the sake of correctness, `org-indent-mode' cannot corrupt a file. It only modifies two text properties, `line-prefix' and `wrap-prefix', never the contents of the file. Something else corrupted that file. `org-indent-mode' possibly made it harder to notice, but you're looking after the wrong culprit. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou
Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file
On 13-12-03 19:30 Nick Dokos wrote: Alexander Baier lexi.ba...@gmail.com writes: I used to set up backup-directory-alist the same way you have, but changed it, when I noticed emacs putting backups of files I edited as root into that directory. That was something I did not want to do. OK - I haven't lived with this setup long enough to know better. On another subject: (setq backup-directory-alist '((/home/delexi/* . /home/delexi/.emacs.d/backup))) the docstring says that the car of each dotted pair in the alist is a regexp: I presume an emacs regexp, not a shell glob pattern. So the setting should be (setq backup-directory-alist '((/home/delexi/.* . /some/dir))) - no? Nick Yes, you are right. Although /home/delexi/* is a valid regexp, it sure is not what I meant to express. As you said, /home/delexi/.* is the way I wanted to go. Thanks, -- Alexander Baier
Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file
Am 04.12.2013 09:25, schrieb Nicolas Goaziou: Hello, Rainer Stengele rainer.steng...@online.de writes: last week I played around with org-indent-mode in my biggest (37.000 lines) org file. 3 days later I detected that most of the file was corrupted. WHy so late? Using the agenda I only saw the todos and did not recognise the corrupted structures. Most * items had been placed at the beginning of the line and therefore now became headlines. I do not know how this happened. I am not sure if I myself was the reason somehow. Anyway I had to spend a fair amount of work to get the old file format from subversion and insert the changes since the corruption. This is just a warning to have backups at hand before changing to org-indent mode. Then immediately and check often the contents of the file until you are sure all is running well. Maybe someone has an idea. I will try to convert again later but then be much more careful. For the sake of correctness, `org-indent-mode' cannot corrupt a file. It only modifies two text properties, `line-prefix' and `wrap-prefix', never the contents of the file. Something else corrupted that file. `org-indent-mode' possibly made it harder to notice, but you're looking after the wrong culprit. Regards, Good to know. But the indent-mode made it quite easy to mess up most of the file. I think I tried somehow to delete the now no more needed whitespace and messed things up without noticing it. I am afraid there is no easy way to convert a non org-indent-mode to a nice formatted org-indent-file. For smaller files I went through them page by page and left shifted lists and items manually. As far as I remember even Bernt Hansen did the work manually after switching. Maybe someone has a suggestion. Regards, Rainer
Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file
Hello, Rainer Stengele rainer.steng...@online.de writes: I am afraid there is no easy way to convert a non org-indent-mode to a nice formatted org-indent-file. Don't be afraid. There is `org-unindent-buffer'. Admittedly, it doesn't handle starred items, but that shouldn't be hard to fix. Regards, -- Nicolas Goaziou
Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file
Thanks for sharing this. However, after adding this to my ~/.emacs I do not see anything appearing in my .emacs.d/backup directory. #+begin_src emacs-lisp (setq make-backup-files t) (setq backup-directory-alist '((/home/js/* . /home/js/.emacs.d/backup))) (setq backup-by-copying t ; don't use symlinks delete-old-versions t; don't ask me about deleting backups kept-new-versions 20 kept-old-versions 5 version-control t) ; use versioned backups #+end_src Regards Johann On 2 December 2013 17:37, Alexander Baier lexi.ba...@gmail.com wrote: On 13-12-02 12:21 Rainer Stengele wrote: All, last week I played around with org-indent-mode in my biggest (37.000 lines) org file. 3 days later I detected that most of the file was corrupted. WHy so late? Using the agenda I only saw the todos and did not recognise the corrupted structures. Most * items had been placed at the beginning of the line and therefore now became headlines. I do not know how this happened. I am not sure if I myself was the reason somehow. Anyway I had to spend a fair amount of work to get the old file format from subversion and insert the changes since the corruption. This is just a warning to have backups at hand before changing to org-indent mode. Then immediately and check often the contents of the file until you are sure all is running well. Maybe someone has an idea. I will try to convert again later but then be much more careful. Rainer FWIW, I have the following snippet in my init file, that uses emacs' build-in backup machanism to save me from such things. As emacs stuffs them all in one central location, I do not have to worry about polluting my filesystem. #+begin_src emacs-lisp (setq make-backup-files t) (setq backup-directory-alist '((/home/delexi/* . /home/delexi/.emacs.d/backup))) (setq backup-by-copying t ; don't use symlinks delete-old-versions t; don't ask me about deleting backups kept-new-versions 20 kept-old-versions 5 version-control t) ; use versioned backups #+end_src If you want to make backups from files under version control, you also have to set the following: #+begin_src emacs-lisp (setq vc-make-backup-files t) #+end_src This already saved me a couple of times. Regards, -- Alexander Baier -- Because experiencing your loyal love is better than life itself, my lips will praise you. (Psalm 63:3)
Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file
Hello Johann, that is strange. I cannot remember doing something else besides putting the mentioned code into my init file. I can only think of these trivial reason why this does not work for you: - Did you evaluate the code or restarted your emacs? - Are the files you are editing somewhere under /home/js/? - Did you really edit and save a file since adding the code to your init file? - In case you are editing files under version control: Did you turn on vc-make-backup-files? HTH, -- Alexander Baier On 13-12-03 09:33 Johann Spies wrote: Thanks for sharing this. However, after adding this to my ~/.emacs I do not see anything appearing in my .emacs.d/backup directory. #+begin_src emacs-lisp (setq make-backup-files t) (setq backup-directory-alist '((/home/js/* . /home/js/.emacs.d/backup))) (setq backup-by-copying t ; don't use symlinks delete-old-versions t; don't ask me about deleting backups kept-new-versions 20 kept-old-versions 5 version-control t) ; use versioned backups #+end_src Regards Johann On 2 December 2013 17:37, Alexander Baier lexi.ba...@gmail.com wrote: On 13-12-02 12:21 Rainer Stengele wrote: All, last week I played around with org-indent-mode in my biggest (37.000 lines) org file. 3 days later I detected that most of the file was corrupted. WHy so late? Using the agenda I only saw the todos and did not recognise the corrupted structures. Most * items had been placed at the beginning of the line and therefore now became headlines. I do not know how this happened. I am not sure if I myself was the reason somehow. Anyway I had to spend a fair amount of work to get the old file format from subversion and insert the changes since the corruption. This is just a warning to have backups at hand before changing to org-indent mode. Then immediately and check often the contents of the file until you are sure all is running well. Maybe someone has an idea. I will try to convert again later but then be much more careful. Rainer FWIW, I have the following snippet in my init file, that uses emacs' build-in backup machanism to save me from such things. As emacs stuffs them all in one central location, I do not have to worry about polluting my filesystem. #+begin_src emacs-lisp (setq make-backup-files t) (setq backup-directory-alist '((/home/delexi/* . /home/delexi/.emacs.d/backup))) (setq backup-by-copying t ; don't use symlinks delete-old-versions t; don't ask me about deleting backups kept-new-versions 20 kept-old-versions 5 version-control t) ; use versioned backups #+end_src If you want to make backups from files under version control, you also have to set the following: #+begin_src emacs-lisp (setq vc-make-backup-files t) #+end_src This already saved me a couple of times. Regards, -- Alexander Baier
Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file
Hello Alexander, Thanks for your attention. that is strange. I cannot remember doing something else besides putting the mentioned code into my init file. I can only think of these trivial reason why this does not work for you: - Did you evaluate the code or restarted your emacs? Yes, I killed emacs (daemon) and restarted it. How do you evaluate (reload) ~/.emacs from emacs running? - Are the files you are editing somewhere under /home/js/? Yes: in /home/js/DropBox/orgmode and then /home/js/.emacs - Did you really edit and save a file since adding the code to your init file? Yes - In case you are editing files under version control: Did you turn on vc-make-backup-files? None of those files are under version control. I have done this on two computers - at work (the earlier message) and home. Regards Johann -- J.H. Spies - Tel. 021-982 2694 / 082 782 0336 / 021-808 4699(w) Posbus 4668, Tygervallei 7536 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. James 4:7
Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file
Hello Johann, On 13-12-03 18:23 Johann Spies wrote: Hello Alexander, Thanks for your attention. that is strange. I cannot remember doing something else besides putting the mentioned code into my init file. I can only think of these trivial reason why this does not work for you: - Did you evaluate the code or restarted your emacs? Yes, I killed emacs (daemon) and restarted it. How do you evaluate (reload) ~/.emacs from emacs running? There are several ways of doing this. You can open your ~/.emacs and simply do M-x eval-buffer RET. But it would also be sufficient to just evaluate the newly added sexp, e.g. by marking them and calling M-x eval-region. [...] I have done this on two computers - at work (the earlier message) and home. Than I am out of ideas. You could take a look at the manual yourself and see, if we missed something: (info (Emacs) Backup). (In case you do not know how to open the manual based on the expression above: Place your curser after the ')' closing the info expression and press `C-x C-e'.) Regards, -- Alexander Baier
Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file
Johann Spies johann.sp...@gmail.com writes: Hello Alexander, Thanks for your attention. that is strange. I cannot remember doing something else besides putting the mentioned code into my init file. I can only think of these trivial reason why this does not work for you: - Did you evaluate the code or restarted your emacs? Yes, I killed emacs (daemon) and restarted it. How do you evaluate (reload) ~/.emacs from emacs running? - Are the files you are editing somewhere under /home/js/? Yes: in /home/js/DropBox/orgmode and then /home/js/.emacs - Did you really edit and save a file since adding the code to your init file? Yes - In case you are editing files under version control: Did you turn on vc-make-backup-files? None of those files are under version control. I have done this on two computers - at work (the earlier message) and home. The docstring for backup-directory-alist says , | For the common case of all backups going into one directory, the alist | should contain a single element pairing . with the appropriate | directory name. ` FWIW, I tried (setq backup-directory-alist '((. . /home/nick/.emacs.d/backup-dir))) and it seems to work. I don't remember if I had to create the backup-dir beforehand. Nick
Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file
Hello Nick, On 13-12-03 18:43 Nick Dokos wrote: [...] The docstring for backup-directory-alist says , | For the common case of all backups going into one directory, the alist | should contain a single element pairing . with the appropriate | directory name. ` FWIW, I tried (setq backup-directory-alist '((. . /home/nick/.emacs.d/backup-dir))) and it seems to work. I don't remember if I had to create the backup-dir beforehand. Nick I used to set up backup-directory-alist the same way you have, but changed it, when I noticed emacs putting backups of files I edited as root into that directory. That was something I did not want to do. Regards, -- Alexander Baier
Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file (solved backups)
After reading a little bit about emacs backup functions I experimented with customising emacs using the 'options' menu and succeeded in getting the type of backups you were talking about. It looks similar to yours (I even tried a version from the emacs backup-wiki without success) and I don't know why it did not work previously. Anyhow thanks again for your pointer. Regards Johann -- J.H. Spies - Tel. 021-982 2694 / 082 782 0336 / 021-808 4699(w) Posbus 4668, Tygervallei 7536 Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. James 4:7
Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file
Alexander Baier lexi.ba...@gmail.com writes: I used to set up backup-directory-alist the same way you have, but changed it, when I noticed emacs putting backups of files I edited as root into that directory. That was something I did not want to do. OK - I haven't lived with this setup long enough to know better. On another subject: (setq backup-directory-alist '((/home/delexi/* . /home/delexi/.emacs.d/backup))) the docstring says that the car of each dotted pair in the alist is a regexp: I presume an emacs regexp, not a shell glob pattern. So the setting should be (setq backup-directory-alist '((/home/delexi/.* . /some/dir))) - no? Nick
Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file
Nick Dokos, Nick Dokos wrote: Alexander Baier lexi.ba...@gmail.com writes: I used to set up backup-directory-alist the same way you have, but changed it, when I noticed emacs putting backups of files I edited as root into that directory. That was something I did not want to do. OK - I haven't lived with this setup long enough to know better. On another subject: (setq backup-directory-alist '((/home/delexi/* . /home/delexi/.emacs.d/backup))) the docstring says that the car of each dotted pair in the alist is a regexp: I presume an emacs regexp, not a shell glob pattern. So the setting should be (setq backup-directory-alist '((/home/delexi/.* . /some/dir))) - no? Yes, I do have (for years) the following: --8---cut here---start-8--- (setq backup-directory-alist '((.* . ~/.emacs.d/backups/))) --8---cut here---end---8--- Emacs will `make-directory' it, if necessary. Best regards, Seb -- Sebastien Vauban
Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file
Rainer Stengele wrote: last week I played around with org-indent-mode in my biggest (37.000 lines) org file. 3 days later I detected that most of the file was corrupted. WHy so late? Using the agenda I only saw the todos and did not recognise the corrupted structures. Most * items had been placed at the beginning of the line and therefore now became headlines. I do not know how this happened. I am not sure if I myself was the reason somehow. Anyway I had to spend a fair amount of work to get the old file format from subversion and insert the changes since the corruption. This is just a warning to have backups at hand before changing to org-indent mode. Then immediately and check often the contents of the file until you are sure all is running well. Maybe someone has an idea. I will try to convert again later but then be much more careful. Last week, I also lost contents in the file I worked a lot in (R code, published to slides). In fact, I did not really lose it, thanks to SVN... That seems to have been a nasty bug in the caching. I should be fixed AFAICT. But, yes, this can always happen. Better to have fallback mechanisms when it occurs -- even if we've to admit it is very, very seldsom, and only with the dev trunk. Best regards, Seb -- Sebastien Vauban
Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file
On Dec 2, 2013, at 12:31 PM, Sebastien Vauban sva-n...@mygooglest.com wrote: Rainer Stengele wrote: last week I played around with org-indent-mode in my biggest (37.000 lines) org file. 3 days later I detected that most of the file was corrupted. WHy so late? Using the agenda I only saw the todos and did not recognise the corrupted structures. Most * items had been placed at the beginning of the line and therefore now became headlines. I do not know how this happened. I am not sure if I myself was the reason somehow. Anyway I had to spend a fair amount of work to get the old file format from subversion and insert the changes since the corruption. This is just a warning to have backups at hand before changing to org-indent mode. Then immediately and check often the contents of the file until you are sure all is running well. Maybe someone has an idea. I will try to convert again later but then be much more careful. Last week, I also lost contents in the file I worked a lot in (R code, published to slides). In fact, I did not really lose it, thanks to SVN... That seems to have been a nasty bug in the caching. I should be fixed AFAICT. But, yes, this can always happen. Better to have fallback mechanisms when it occurs -- even if we've to admit it is very, very seldsom, and only with the dev trunk. This is great advice, in particular while testing fundamental changes like the caching mechanism. git-up everybody! - Carsten Best regards, Seb -- Sebastien Vauban
Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file
On 13-12-02 12:21 Rainer Stengele wrote: All, last week I played around with org-indent-mode in my biggest (37.000 lines) org file. 3 days later I detected that most of the file was corrupted. WHy so late? Using the agenda I only saw the todos and did not recognise the corrupted structures. Most * items had been placed at the beginning of the line and therefore now became headlines. I do not know how this happened. I am not sure if I myself was the reason somehow. Anyway I had to spend a fair amount of work to get the old file format from subversion and insert the changes since the corruption. This is just a warning to have backups at hand before changing to org-indent mode. Then immediately and check often the contents of the file until you are sure all is running well. Maybe someone has an idea. I will try to convert again later but then be much more careful. Rainer FWIW, I have the following snippet in my init file, that uses emacs' build-in backup machanism to save me from such things. As emacs stuffs them all in one central location, I do not have to worry about polluting my filesystem. #+begin_src emacs-lisp (setq make-backup-files t) (setq backup-directory-alist '((/home/delexi/* . /home/delexi/.emacs.d/backup))) (setq backup-by-copying t ; don't use symlinks delete-old-versions t; don't ask me about deleting backups kept-new-versions 20 kept-old-versions 5 version-control t) ; use versioned backups #+end_src If you want to make backups from files under version control, you also have to set the following: #+begin_src emacs-lisp (setq vc-make-backup-files t) #+end_src This already saved me a couple of times. Regards, -- Alexander Baier
Re: [O] org-indent-mode corrupted most of a big org file
Alexander Baier lexi.ba...@gmail.com writes: (setq backup-by-copying t ; don't use symlinks Thanks for sharing your setup, I think I'll use a similar one. Just a comment though on the above line : that comment is misleading because emacs is not going to make a backup by making a symlink anyway. (the full story is in the docstring.) Nico.
