From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Rjjd" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Numbered backup stopped working Date: 5 Nov 2006 14:05:56 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1162764356.525637.200750@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: <1162416662.142740.20650@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162766439 28091 80.91.229.2 (5 Nov 2006 22:40:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 22:40:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 05 23:40:36 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ggqf8-0004EF-Oq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Nov 2006 23:40:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ggqf8-0000kg-3m for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 05 Nov 2006 17:40:22 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 38 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69.21.249.74 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1162764361 1781 127.0.0.1 (5 Nov 2006 22:06:01 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2006 22:06:01 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 1.0.3705; .NET CLR 2.0.50215),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=69.21.249.74; posting-account=0Ozkkg0AAAAh4Pu9GYw76Oq9hf25I9Fk Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142936 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:38554 Archived-At: Thanks, Kevin, It was vc-make-backup-files, which I didn't know about, and which "apropos backup" would have told me about if I'd paid attention!. It seems odd that the default is to omit backing up "registered" files, which introduces some risk. Regards, Bob Kevin Rodgers wrote: > Rjjd wrote: > > My emacs stopped making numbered backups. Version 21.3. > > > > C-x C-s makes no backup, even on newly-visited file. > > > > I have these: > > (setq kept-new-versions 10) ;# newest versions to save > > (setq version-control t) > > (setq delete-old-versions t) ;delete middle backups quietly > > > > Has anyone ever seen the backer-upper stop working? > > No, but: > > C-h v make-backup-files > C-h v vc-make-backup-files > C-h v backup-inhibited > C-h v backup-enable-predicate > C-h f normal-backup-enable-predicate > C-h v temporary-file-directory > C-h v small-temporary-file-directory > > -- > Kevin