From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#31050: 27.0.50; command for restoring backups Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 15:27:58 +0200 Message-ID: <87d0icu4o1.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="268534"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: 31050@debbugs.gnu.org To: charles@aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jul 14 15:29:08 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hmeYt-0017fB-GU for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2019 15:29:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60492 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hmeYs-0007xI-Bx for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2019 09:29:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:36324) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hmeYp-0007xC-E2 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2019 09:29:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hmeYo-0005J5-3e for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2019 09:29:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:35184) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hmeYn-0005Iy-Vp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2019 09:29:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hmeYn-0002im-QY for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2019 09:29:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 13:29:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 31050 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 31050-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B31050.156311088510387 (code B ref 31050); Sun, 14 Jul 2019 13:29:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 31050) by debbugs.gnu.org; 14 Jul 2019 13:28:05 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:44004 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hmeXt-0002hT-Gi for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2019 09:28:05 -0400 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]:51750) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1hmeXr-0002hJ-Th for 31050@debbugs.gnu.org; Sun, 14 Jul 2019 09:28:04 -0400 Original-Received: from cm-84.212.202.86.getinternet.no ([84.212.202.86] helo=marnie) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1hmeXm-0002ZG-Hm; Sun, 14 Jul 2019 15:28:01 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Charles A. Roelli's message of "Tue, 03 Apr 2018 20:06:16 +0200") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:162979 Archived-At: charles@aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli) writes: > There's already a command for recovering an "auto-save" file (M-x > recover-file), but no command for restoring a backup file. We should > add one. It might also be helpful to bind it in the "File" menu of > the menu-bar. Hm... Well, there may be a number of backup files (~3~ etc), while there's only one auto-save file... and, also, recovering an auto-save file is really recovering something that's a work in progress, which reverting to a backup file is more akin to reverting to an older version in a version control system. So I'm not sure whether such a command makes that much sense -- it's something that might be used to seldom that nobody would remember that it's there, and looking at old versions of files is really easy using any of the standard ways of looking at files. Any opinions? -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no