From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Rjjd" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Numbered backup stopped working Date: 1 Nov 2006 13:31:02 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1162416662.142740.20650@m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1162417286 24026 80.91.229.2 (1 Nov 2006 21:41:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 21:41:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 01 22:41:22 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 1GfNpi-0000iW-OJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 22:41:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GfNpi-0006u7-C4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Nov 2006 16:41:14 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 198.112.236.6 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1162416666 19975 127.0.0.1 (1 Nov 2006 21:31:06 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 21:31:06 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: m7g2000cwm.googlegroups.com; posting-host=198.112.236.6; posting-account=0Ozkkg0AAAAh4Pu9GYw76Oq9hf25I9Fk Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142853 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:38472 Archived-At: My emacs stopped making numbered backups. Version 21.3. C-x C-s makes no backup, even on newly-visited file. I have these: (setq kept-new-versions 10) ;# newest versions to save (setq version-control t) (setq delete-old-versions t) ;delete middle backups quietly Has anyone ever seen the backer-upper stop working? Regards, Bob