From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu>
Cc: 56291@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#56291: 29.0.50; version-control versus gnus-backup-startup-file
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2022 12:22:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871qv7lqgb.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <62574.1656464407@alto> (Mike Kupfer's message of "Tue, 28 Jun 2022 18:00:07 -0700")
Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu> writes:
> Awhile back, I wanted to get numbered backup files for my Gnus
> .newsrc.eld file, at least for a few days until I figured out why it was
> getting trashed occasionally. It took me quite some time to get it to
> work, because I didn't know about gnus-backup-startup-file, and I
> misunderstood part of the Info page "Backup Names". That page says
>
> You can have Emacs set ‘version-control’ locally whenever you visit
> a given file (*note File Variables::). Some modes, such as Rmail
> mode, set this variable.
>
> I think that last sentence would be clearer as
>
> Some packages, such as Rmail, override the global setting of
> ‘version-control’ in this manner.
I don't think that's correct, though? rmail-mode doesn't use file
variables, it does:
(setq-local version-control 'never)
So it doesn't set version-control "in this manner", as far as I can tell?
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-29 10:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-29 1:00 bug#56291: 29.0.50; version-control versus gnus-backup-startup-file Mike Kupfer
2022-06-29 10:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2022-06-29 14:38 ` Mike Kupfer
2022-06-29 14:44 ` Mike Kupfer
2022-06-29 16:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-29 16:17 ` Mike Kupfer
2022-06-29 17:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-30 9:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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