From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Reviewing versioned backups Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 12:31:10 +0300 Message-ID: References: <87a6qvat9v.fsf@posteo.net> <875z1ii7te.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="19380"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/2.0.6 (2021-03-06) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eric S Fraga Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 23 10:34:19 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lOdQZ-0004vn-Ii for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2021 10:34:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46030 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lOdQY-0000CJ-JC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2021 05:34:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56972) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lOdQ5-0000CC-On for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2021 05:33:49 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:57477) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lOdQ3-00068Q-I2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2021 05:33:49 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:41.202.241.53]) (AUTH: PLAIN securesender, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 000000000001E079.000000006059B5F8.000050D5; Tue, 23 Mar 2021 02:33:43 -0700 Mail-Followup-To: Eric S Fraga , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <875z1ii7te.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:128518 Archived-At: * Eric S Fraga [2021-03-23 11:39]: > On Monday, 22 Mar 2021 at 23:25, Jean Louis wrote: > > I am using RCS and to review some previous version I do: `C-x v ~ > > VERSION-NUMBER` then I get full file visible in the buffer. > > I think the OP is using the simple backup file method built-in to Emacs, > not a version control system, i.e. that files are backed up using a > simple numbering scheme. How do you do that? My variable `make-backup-file' is T. But that I think does only a copy with ~ on the end. How do you enable backup files with simple numbering scheme from default? Of course it can be done with special customizations, but is there way to do it with default variables in Emacs? Jean