* bug#31050: 27.0.50; command for restoring backups
@ 2018-04-03 18:06 Charles A. Roelli
2019-07-14 13:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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From: Charles A. Roelli @ 2018-04-03 18:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: 31050
There's already a command for recovering an "auto-save" file (M-x
recover-file), but no command for restoring a backup file. We should
add one. It might also be helpful to bind it in the "File" menu of
the menu-bar.
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* bug#31050: 27.0.50; command for restoring backups
2018-04-03 18:06 bug#31050: 27.0.50; command for restoring backups Charles A. Roelli
@ 2019-07-14 13:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-03 2:37 ` Stefan Kangas
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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2019-07-14 13:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Charles A. Roelli; +Cc: 31050
charles@aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli) writes:
> There's already a command for recovering an "auto-save" file (M-x
> recover-file), but no command for restoring a backup file. We should
> add one. It might also be helpful to bind it in the "File" menu of
> the menu-bar.
Hm... Well, there may be a number of backup files (~3~ etc), while
there's only one auto-save file... and, also, recovering an auto-save
file is really recovering something that's a work in progress, which
reverting to a backup file is more akin to reverting to an older version
in a version control system.
So I'm not sure whether such a command makes that much sense -- it's
something that might be used to seldom that nobody would remember that
it's there, and looking at old versions of files is really easy using
any of the standard ways of looking at files.
Any opinions?
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
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* bug#31050: 27.0.50; command for restoring backups
2019-07-14 13:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
@ 2019-10-03 2:37 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-03 14:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-03 16:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
0 siblings, 2 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Kangas @ 2019-10-03 2:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen; +Cc: 31050, Charles A. Roelli
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> charles@aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli) writes:
>
> > There's already a command for recovering an "auto-save" file (M-x
> > recover-file), but no command for restoring a backup file. We should
> > add one. It might also be helpful to bind it in the "File" menu of
> > the menu-bar.
>
> Hm... Well, there may be a number of backup files (~3~ etc), while
> there's only one auto-save file... and, also, recovering an auto-save
> file is really recovering something that's a work in progress, which
> reverting to a backup file is more akin to reverting to an older version
> in a version control system.
>
> So I'm not sure whether such a command makes that much sense -- it's
> something that might be used to seldom that nobody would remember that
> it's there, and looking at old versions of files is really easy using
> any of the standard ways of looking at files.
>
> Any opinions?
Such a command doesn't make much sense to me either.
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
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* bug#31050: 27.0.50; command for restoring backups
2019-10-03 2:37 ` Stefan Kangas
@ 2019-10-03 14:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-03 16:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Lars Ingebrigtsen @ 2019-10-03 14:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stefan Kangas; +Cc: 31050, Charles A. Roelli
Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
> Such a command doesn't make much sense to me either.
OK; closing as "wontfix".
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
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* bug#31050: 27.0.50; command for restoring backups
2019-10-03 2:37 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-03 14:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
@ 2019-10-03 16:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
1 sibling, 0 replies; 5+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2019-10-03 16:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Stefan Kangas; +Cc: 31050, larsi, charles
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 04:37:00 +0200
> Cc: 31050@debbugs.gnu.org, "Charles A. Roelli" <charles@aurox.ch>
>
> > Hm... Well, there may be a number of backup files (~3~ etc), while
> > there's only one auto-save file... and, also, recovering an auto-save
> > file is really recovering something that's a work in progress, which
> > reverting to a backup file is more akin to reverting to an older version
> > in a version control system.
> >
> > So I'm not sure whether such a command makes that much sense -- it's
> > something that might be used to seldom that nobody would remember that
> > it's there, and looking at old versions of files is really easy using
> > any of the standard ways of looking at files.
> >
> > Any opinions?
>
> Such a command doesn't make much sense to me either.
Doesn't revert-buffer already provide this capability?
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