From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Numbered backup stopped working Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2006 09:16:22 -0700 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <1162416662.142740.20650@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> <1162764356.525637.200750@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162832144 18142 80.91.229.2 (6 Nov 2006 16:55:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 16:55:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 06 17:55:42 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 1Gh7WK-0004f7-Py for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 17:40:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gh7WK-0007Kp-74 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:40:24 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gh7Vq-000798-DX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:39:54 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gh7Vl-000732-L6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:39:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gh7Vl-00072p-EF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:39:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1Gh7Vl-00084V-DN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 11:39:49 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Gh7Fh-0007ih-3b for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 17:23:13 +0100 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 17:23:12 +0100 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 06 Nov 2006 17:23:12 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 14 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (Windows/20060909) In-Reply-To: <1162764356.525637.200750@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> 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:38562 Archived-At: Rjjd wrote: > It seems odd that the default is to omit backing up "registered" files, > which introduces some risk. ,---- | For files managed by a version control system (*note Version | Control::), the variable `vc-make-backup-files' determines whether to | make backup files. By default it is `nil', since backup files are | redundant when you store all the previous versions in a version control | system. *Note General VC Options: (emacs-xtra)General VC Options. `---- -- Kevin