From: Karl Fogel <kfogel@red-bean.com>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 'Chong Yidong' <cyd@gnu.org>, 12507@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#12507: [debbugs-tracker] Processed: severity 12507 wishlist
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:57:18 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vcezbb7l.fsf@floss.red-bean.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F6119DD3F0DE4FD7A6887BE6092260E7@us.oracle.com> (Drew Adams's message of "Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:00:39 -0700")
"Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
>> Set `bookmark-version-control' to `t', of course.
>
>OK, I thought of that, but that seems like a strange thing for the doc to
>suggest: customize it to `t', save your bookmark file, then re/un-customize it
>back to the default, `nil'.
Sorry? I'm maybe not understanding your question.
If a user wants numbered backups of their bookmark data file, then they
would set (customize) `bookmark-version-control' to `t'. If they don't,
then it's nil. That is: they can leave it as the default (which would
be nil in my proposal) or if they really want to be certain, I suppose
they could explicitly customize it to nil.
>Is that really the best recommendation? I have no special problem with
>it, but somehow I was expecting something else.
Can you describe what you were expecting?
Controlling numbered backups of the bookmark data file is the whole
reason the variable exists in the first place, so users should expect
that if they want to control that behavior, this variable is the place
to look. (Of course it should be documented; my point is just that I
can't imagine what *other* mechanism would control this, since the only
reason the current mechanism exists is ... to control exactly this.)
-K
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2012-09-25 13:53 ` bug#12507: [debbugs-tracker] Processed: severity 12507 wishlist Drew Adams
2012-09-26 2:53 ` Chong Yidong
2012-09-26 3:18 ` Drew Adams
2012-09-26 4:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-26 14:19 ` Drew Adams
2012-09-26 19:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-26 20:31 ` Drew Adams
2012-09-26 21:46 ` Karl Fogel
2012-09-26 22:26 ` Drew Adams
2012-09-26 23:36 ` Drew Adams
2012-09-27 15:48 ` Karl Fogel
2012-09-27 16:00 ` Drew Adams
2012-09-27 17:57 ` Karl Fogel [this message]
2012-09-27 18:32 ` Drew Adams
2012-09-27 3:24 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-09-24 18:41 ` bug#12507: 24.2.50; `bookmark-write-file': use `write-file', not `write-region', to get backups Drew Adams
2012-09-27 5:38 ` bug#12507: [debbugs-tracker] Processed: severity 12507 wishlist Thierry Volpiatto
2012-09-27 18:37 ` Drew Adams
2012-09-27 21:16 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-09-28 9:04 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-09-28 20:00 ` Drew Adams
2012-09-29 7:42 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-09-29 14:36 ` Drew Adams
2012-09-29 15:12 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-09-29 15:51 ` Drew Adams
2012-09-29 16:20 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-09-29 16:50 ` Drew Adams
2012-09-29 16:57 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2012-10-01 3:38 ` bug#12507: Option `(bookmark-)version-control': Use :tag so doc string matches menu Karl Fogel
2012-10-01 4:06 ` bug#12507: Option `(bookmark-)version-control': Use :tag so docstring " Drew Adams
2012-10-01 4:13 ` bug#12507: Have I mentioned how much I hate Debbugs? Karl Fogel
2012-10-01 4:50 ` Drew Adams
2012-10-01 21:23 ` Karl Fogel
2012-10-01 22:00 ` Drew Adams
2012-10-02 5:31 ` Thierry Volpiatto
2020-11-29 1:07 ` bug#12507: [debbugs-tracker] Processed: severity 12507 wishlist Karl Fogel
2012-09-27 8:36 ` bug#12507: `bookmark-write-file': use `write-file', not `write-region', to get backups Juri Linkov
2012-09-27 15:02 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-18 15:02 ` bug#12507: [debbugs-tracker] Processed: severity 12507 wishlist Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-18 16:23 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-19 14:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-19 17:29 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-23 6:41 ` Karl Fogel
2020-09-23 13:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-23 16:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-24 13:58 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-29 5:27 ` Karl Fogel
2020-09-29 14:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-23 14:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-23 18:13 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-23 18:14 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-29 5:25 ` Karl Fogel
2020-09-29 15:45 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-29 0:28 ` Karl Fogel
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