From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: orium Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: When does emacs backup files? Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:57:15 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <01812190-7de6-4215-a71e-a2ef1f18637f@l11g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298155497 29086 80.91.229.12 (19 Feb 2011 22:44:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 22:44:57 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 19 23:44:52 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PqvXo-0004UR-4O for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:44:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54349 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PqvXn-0005Vf-FG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:44:51 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!l11g2000yqb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 79.169.41.80 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1298073436 12362 127.0.0.1 (18 Feb 2011 23:57:16 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 23:57:16 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: l11g2000yqb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=79.169.41.80; posting-account=pSaxzgoAAAD_3GlMB35r7tiNYXGf6Xg- User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20110207 Firefox/3.6.13,gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:185051 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:41:40 -0500 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:79238 Archived-At: Hi, I want my emacs to backup every file on save (with version control), but for some reason i only have one version of each file. My configuration is this: (setq make-backup-files t) (setq version-control t) ; Enable backup versioning (setq delete-old-versions t) ; Don't ask about delete old versions of backup (setq kept-new-versions 1000000) ; Remember 1M versions of backup (setq kept-old-versions 1000000) (setq backup-directory-alist (quote ((".*" . "~/.emacs_backups/")))) How can have one new backup version created every time i save a file?