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* Re: mkback.el v. 1.0
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@ 2003-04-18 17:50 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
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From: Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com> @ 2003-04-18 17:50 UTC (permalink / raw)


> mkback searches for a backup/ folder in the
> file's directory, or its parent directory, or the grandparent
> directory , and so on.  It then backs up the requested file with
> a mirroring of the relative directory structure, and the
> current date/time information.
> The primary functions from emacs are M-x mkback and M-x mkback-buffer. 

My knee-jerk reaction was "why the hell doesn't he use RCS/CVS/whatever" ?
But rather than discourage you to write this, I'll encourage you
to provide a VC backend for it.
It should be pretty easy to get the basics working such that C-x v v
ends up calling `mkback'.


        Stefan

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