From: Thibaut Verron <thibaut.verron@gmail.com>
To: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Reviewing versioned backups
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2021 10:56:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d47911e3-4854-246d-f8fd-82bb7a7c53de@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YFm1XhDeY5mdCnRZ@protected.localdomain>
On 3/23/21 10:31 AM, Jean Louis wrote:
> * Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk> [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?
See:
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Numbered-Backups.html
Maybe the docstring of make-backup-files could point to that
possibility, to improve discoverability?
Thibaut
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-23 9:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-03-22 19:21 Reviewing versioned backups Philip Kaludercic
2021-03-22 20:25 ` Jean Louis
2021-03-23 8:38 ` Eric S Fraga
2021-03-23 9:31 ` Jean Louis
2021-03-23 9:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-23 10:19 ` Jean Louis
2021-03-23 11:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-23 15:49 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-03-23 9:56 ` Thibaut Verron [this message]
2021-03-23 11:55 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-03-23 12:36 ` John Yates
2021-03-23 12:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-24 8:47 ` Jean Louis
2021-03-24 11:05 ` Jean Louis
2021-03-24 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-26 5:50 ` Robert Thorpe
2021-03-28 0:38 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-03-28 9:23 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-03-30 0:36 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-03-30 9:29 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-03-30 9:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-30 10:03 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-03-30 10:16 ` Jean Louis
2021-03-30 23:41 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-03-31 1:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-03-31 6:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-31 13:29 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-03-31 14:00 ` Jean Louis
2021-04-01 15:52 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-01 19:44 ` Philip Kaludercic
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