From: Steven Arntson <steven@stevenarntson.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: numbered backups
Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 20:00:43 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877g5f96p0.fsf@stevenarntson.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 877g5fhn75.fsf@kuiper.lan.informatimago.com
"Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:
> Steven Arntson <steven@stevenarntson.com> writes:
>
>> I know I read how to do this somewhere, but can't find it now. I'd like
>> emacs to name my backup files not as
>>
>> file.org.~1~
>> file.org.~2~
>>
>> but rather as
>>
>> file.org.~001~
>> file.org.~002~
>>
>> is there a variable I could call up from M-x customize to influence this
>> behavior?
>
> See the variable make-backup-file-name-function
> and the function make-backup-file-name
This looks promising, but I'm too much of a beginner to accomplish much
with it! Under "value menu" for "Make Backup File Name Function" it asks
me, "Your function: ______". I don't know what to put there to achieve
my desired result.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-21 3:00 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <mailman.1717.1400638422.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-05-21 2:37 ` numbered backups Pascal J. Bourguignon
2014-05-21 3:00 ` Steven Arntson [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.1721.1400641272.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-05-21 4:14 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2014-05-21 16:21 ` Steven Arntson
2014-05-21 2:13 Steven Arntson
2014-05-21 17:26 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-05-21 18:01 ` Steven Arntson
2014-05-21 20:27 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-05-21 22:37 ` Steven Arntson
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