From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 31050@debbugs.gnu.org, "Charles A. Roelli" <charles@aurox.ch>
Subject: bug#31050: 27.0.50; command for restoring backups
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 04:37:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmkCRvsURnGBZ8a_PTEbaErrZRQzNBj-_3mTOOHYK4BuVA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d0icu4o1.fsf@mouse.gnus.org>
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> 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?
Such a command doesn't make much sense to me either.
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-10-03 2:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-03 18:06 bug#31050: 27.0.50; command for restoring backups Charles A. Roelli
2019-07-14 13:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-03 2:37 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2019-10-03 14:59 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-10-03 16:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
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