Backup filename

Backup filename

[.]

Could someone tell me how to move my backups to ~/.backups and have them 
named something like "|home|me|.emacs.1" and then "|home|me|.emacs.2", 
"|home|me|.emacs.3" and so on. I can't get make-backup-file-name to work 
on 21.?

Please help!

Re: Backup filename

[gebser]

First, look at the variable "version-control".  You can find it and
customize it under the "Custom" menu if you wish.  To have them saved in
~/.backups, you're probably going to have to noodle with
basic-save-buffer, located in files.el.


Bon appetit,
ken

At 19:22 (UTC-0000) on Wed, 3 Dec 2003 . said:

= Could someone tell me how to move my backups to ~/.backups and have them 
= named something like "|home|me|.emacs.1" and then "|home|me|.emacs.2", 
= "|home|me|.emacs.3" and so on. I can't get make-backup-file-name to work 
= on 21.?
= 
= Please help!
= 
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Re: Backup filename

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "." <a.b@c.de>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 19:22:20 GMT
> 
> Could someone tell me how to move my backups to ~/.backups and have them 
> named something like "|home|me|.emacs.1" and then "|home|me|.emacs.2", 
> "|home|me|.emacs.3" and so on. I can't get make-backup-file-name to work 
> on 21.?

Why did you go directly to make-backup-file-name?  There's a simpler
facility; see the doc string of backup-directory-alist.  Any reasons
why it won't do what you want?

Re: Backup filename

[Sikkan]

On 2003-12-03 20:22, . wrote:
> Could someone tell me how to move my backups to ~/.backups and have them 
> named something like "|home|me|.emacs.1" and then "|home|me|.emacs.2", 
> "|home|me|.emacs.3" and so on. I can't get make-backup-file-name to work 
> on 21.?
> 
> Please help!
> 
Try out:
http://www.peerfear.org/el/ebackup.el

It gives you a nice dir struct in the backup folder

Cheers

Re: Backup filename

[.]

Jo jag vet, tack för "tipset" :-)

Sikkan wrote:

> On 2003-12-03 20:22, . wrote:
> 
>> Could someone tell me how to move my backups to ~/.backups and have 
>> them named something like "|home|me|.emacs.1" and then 
>> "|home|me|.emacs.2", "|home|me|.emacs.3" and so on. I can't get 
>> make-backup-file-name to work on 21.?
>>
>> Please help!
>>
> Try out:
> http://www.peerfear.org/el/ebackup.el
> 
> It gives you a nice dir struct in the backup folder
> 
> Cheers

Re: Backup filename

[.]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>>From: "." <a.b@c.de>
>>Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
>>Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 19:22:20 GMT
>>
>>Could someone tell me how to move my backups to ~/.backups and have them 
>>named something like "|home|me|.emacs.1" and then "|home|me|.emacs.2", 
>>"|home|me|.emacs.3" and so on. I can't get make-backup-file-name to work 
>>on 21.?
> 
> 
> Why did you go directly to make-backup-file-name?  There's a simpler
> facility; see the doc string of backup-directory-alist.  Any reasons
> why it won't do what you want?
> 
> 
> 
1) Somebody told me it was the way to go.
2) Will do!
3) No idea, will check and get back. For now, ebackup.el is ok by me.

Thanks Eli!