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From: weber <hugows@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: make-manual-backup
Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2007 19:27:37 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1181244457.515639.63610@m36g2000hse.googlegroups.com> (raw)

Hi all!
I just wrote this function to make a backup of the current file, but
I'm not happy with the solution I used: I have this second write-file
to return to the original file.
Is there a better (probably also faster) way?
Thanks in advance,
weber

(defun make-manual-backup ()
  "Save a copy without changing to new filename.
Useful for making a copy of working file in development."
  (interactive)
  (let ((old-filename (buffer-file-name))
        (new-filename (concat (buffer-file-name) (format-time-string
"%Y%m%d_%Hh%M"))))
    (write-file new-filename)
    (write-file old-filename)
    (message (concat "Wrote backup " new-filename))))

             reply	other threads:[~2007-06-07 19:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-07 19:27 weber [this message]
2007-06-07 19:38 ` make-manual-backup Joost Kremers

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