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From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: "Marshall, Simon" <simon.marshall@misys.com>,
	'Emacs Developers' <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Suggestion: create new file backups following turn of day
Date: 30 May 2002 07:08:50 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <873cwabo99.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jkadqjousr.fsf@glug.org>

Thien-Thi Nguyen <ttn@glug.org> writes:
> probably you have more deterministic interaction if you use RCS.

RCS requires you to make explicit versions.  He can do that using backup
files too, very simply, but he wanted some way to make the system
_automatically_ make more backup files at some periodic interval, in
case he's editing a file for a very long time.

I think it's a great idea...

-Miles
-- 
"Most attacks seem to take place at night, during a rainstorm, uphill,
 where four map sheets join."   -- Anon. British Officer in WW I

  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-29 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-29  9:08 Suggestion: create new file backups following turn of day Marshall, Simon
2002-05-29 10:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-29 15:09 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-05-29 22:08   ` Miles Bader [this message]
2002-05-30 17:04 ` Richard Stallman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-29  9:48 Colin Walters

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