From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "James K. Lowden" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to disable auto save on Emacs 26.1 Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 14:04:18 -0400 Organization: http://www.NewsDemon.com Message-ID: <20181005140418.425d292f23f567ebeb330f14@speakeasy.net> References: <87zhvvqipx.fsf@wallenfang.de> <87murv5d4q.fsf@wallenfang.de> <20181004110446.GA31656@tuxteam.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1538763691 13237 195.159.176.226 (5 Oct 2018 18:21:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 18:21:31 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 05 20:21:27 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1g8Uj8-0003Mi-Ty for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2018 20:21:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36504 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1g8UlF-0004ny-Gv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Oct 2018 14:23:37 -0400 X-Received: by 2002:a1c:4d16:: with SMTP id o22-v6mr1282854wmh.4.1538762659339; Fri, 05 Oct 2018 11:04:19 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!q200-v6no1197210wmd.0!news-out.google.com!z77-v6ni3282wmz.0!nntp.google.com!feeder1-2.proxad.net!proxad.net!feeder1-1.proxad.net!217.73.144.45.MISMATCH!feeder2.ecngs.de!ecngs!feeder.ecngs.de!border1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!npeer-ng0.de.kpn-eurorings.net!peer02.ams1!peer.ams1.xlned.com!news.xlned.com!peer01.fr7!futter-mich.highwinds-media.com!peer02.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!post02.iad!fx17.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help X-Newsreader: Sylpheed 3.4.3 (GTK+ 2.24.28; x86_64--netbsd) Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2018 18:04:18 UTC X-Received-Bytes: 2257 X-Received-Body-CRC: 1062544058 X-Original-Bytes: 2074 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:224006 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:118132 Archived-At: On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 07:55:45 -0500 Skip Montanaro wrote: > Think of backup files (I generally use numeric backups to actually > retain more than one old copy - more clutter!) as a defense against > shooting yourself in the foot. A version control system does that, > only better. Tools like Git or Mercurial make it trivial to create > and manage little repositories ("git init" creates a new repo in the > current directory, for example). Yeah, no. The operative word is "manage". Backups happen automatically; version control happens intentionally. Who wants to execute "add" and "commit" all day long, just in case? Most files don't need or want management. The very last thing you need is a copy of your .profile from 1992, but it well might be handy to have .profile~ when .profile gets overwritten by mistake. There are better answers, although of course Unix is immune to them. VMS had automatic, numbered backups for all files. How many was controlled by properties on the directory by default, or explicitly of the file. The command-line shell syntax supported acting on "the file" (the latest version) by default, or on all versions. I never remember anyone complaining the system was too complicated or hard to understand. --jkl