From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Van L Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to disable auto save on Emacs 26.1 Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 00:47:54 +1000 Message-ID: <32B00B20-58FF-4E30-9B9F-42A4467CD2CA@scratch.space> References: <87zhvvqipx.fsf@wallenfang.de> <87murv5d4q.fsf@wallenfang.de> <20181004110446.GA31656@tuxteam.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 9.3 \(3124\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1538664393 19789 195.159.176.226 (4 Oct 2018 14:46:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2018 14:46:33 +0000 (UTC) To: Help GNU Emacs Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 04 16:46:29 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g84tZ-000537-7r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2018 16:46:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56143 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g84vf-0000ko-Qm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2018 10:48:39 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37358) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g84v7-0000kS-Hj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2018 10:48:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g84v4-0000bT-CR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2018 10:48:05 -0400 Original-Received: from relay9-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.199]:58617) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g84v4-0000Zz-4C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 04 Oct 2018 10:48:02 -0400 X-Originating-IP: 220.244.158.222 Original-Received: from epi.local (220-244-158-222.tpgi.com.au [220.244.158.222]) (Authenticated sender: van@scratch.space) by relay9-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AF720FF80D for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2018 14:47:59 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3124) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 217.70.183.199 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:118116 Archived-At: > Think of backup files (I > generally use numeric backups to actually retain more than one old > copy - more clutter!) as a defense against shooting yourself in the > foot. A version control system does that, only better. Tools like Git > or Mercurial make it trivial to create and manage little repositories > ("git init" creates a new repo in the current directory, for example). > You need not push changes to a central server if you don't care to. A complete beginner might want to try fossil. It has builtin wiki, ticket tracking, and web-frontend. http://www.fossil-scm.org/