From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: esr@thyrsus.com, stefankangas@gmail.com, 75398@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#75398: 30.0.93; files.el documentation refers to "ITS-id" version control
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2025 22:22:45 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1tW5bh-0002Cj-76@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86zfk24xmi.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 07 Jan 2025 14:27:49 +0200)
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> > On ITS, the only place to store a version number was (1) in the second
> > filename or (2) in the file contents. When that text was written, was
> > there code in Emacs to store a version number in one of those places?
> Doesn't look like it, I only see the ".~N~" numerical extensions.
That practice for naming backup files looked partly similar to the ITS
convention of using a version number as the second filename. But the
semantics was different.
I don't think the reference to ITS is very illuminating in the context
of GNU Emacs.
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-01-06 9:46 bug#75398: 30.0.93; files.el documentation refers to "ITS-id" version control Stefan Kangas
2025-01-06 14:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2025-01-06 17:15 ` Stefan Kangas
2025-01-06 18:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2025-01-07 5:23 ` Stefan Kangas
2025-01-07 5:10 ` Richard Stallman
2025-01-07 12:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2025-01-10 3:22 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
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