From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Colin Walters Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggestion: create new file backups following turn of day Date: 29 May 2002 05:48:10 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <1022665690.1358.163.camel@space-ghost> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1022667394 6396 127.0.0.1 (29 May 2002 10:16:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 10:16:34 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17D0VO-0001f3-00 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 12:16:34 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17D0ne-0000tC-00 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 12:35:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17D079-0003Wm-00; Wed, 29 May 2002 05:51:31 -0400 Original-Received: from monk.debian.net ([216.185.54.61] helo=monk.verbum.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17D05y-0003Hi-00 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 05:50:18 -0400 Original-Received: from space-ghost.verbum.private (freedom.cis.ohio-state.edu [164.107.60.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (Client CN "space-ghost.verbum.org", Issuer "monk.verbum.org" (verified OK)) by monk.verbum.org (Postfix (Debian/GNU)) with ESMTP id B757474000BA for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 05:50:07 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: by space-ghost.verbum.private (Postfix (Debian/GNU), from userid 1000) id 2B3BB895644; Wed, 29 May 2002 05:48:10 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.0.3 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:4478 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4478 > What I > would like is to be able to tell Emacs to automatically make backups on > a daily basis, not just the first time I save a visited file. Sounds like a good idea to me; I would use such a feature. Recently though I've gotten into the habit of using RCS a lot; a friend pointed out to me that just typing 'C-x v v' on a file will create an RCS directory for you and everything. Very handy.