bug#31050: 27.0.50; command for restoring backups

bug#31050: 27.0.50; command for restoring backups

[Charles A. Roelli]

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.

bug#31050: 27.0.50; command for restoring backups

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

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?

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bug#31050: 27.0.50; command for restoring backups

[Stefan Kangas]

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

bug#31050: 27.0.50; command for restoring backups

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> Such a command doesn't make much sense to me either.

OK; closing as "wontfix".

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no

bug#31050: 27.0.50; command for restoring backups

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 04:37:00 +0200
> Cc: 31050@debbugs.gnu.org, "Charles A. Roelli" <charles@aurox.ch>
> 
> > 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.

Doesn't revert-buffer already provide this capability?