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From: "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Cc: luangruo@yahoo.com, eliz@gnu.org, james.ipswich@proton.me,
	emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Reconsider make-backup-files default value
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 01:23:34 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1sr9de-0002kL-Ie@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkm=PA-=wFUDZsk9kfDXVneuP9Ppsc6sp5yKAn7i=5+a8gQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from Stefan Kangas on Wed, 18 Sep 2024 23:31:07 +0000)

   If this feature had been added today, we would obviously have kept it
   disabled by default.

The "obviously" here is clearly not obvious (specially for one where
you have no strong opinion), backup files are still uesful to keep
even today in plenty of situations.

The current default strikes a balance between not having too many, and
stil having them which is infinitly better than never having them in
case of any issues.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-09-19  5:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-09-15 22:19 Reconsider make-backup-files default value James Ipswich
2024-09-15 23:29 ` Jeremy Baxter
2024-09-16 12:04   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-18 20:14     ` Petteri Hintsanen
2024-09-18 21:46       ` Christopher Howard
2024-09-19  5:23         ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-19  6:10           ` Juri Linkov
2024-09-19  6:36             ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-15 23:40 ` pinmacs
2024-09-16 12:10   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-16  0:03 ` James Ipswich
2024-09-16  0:14   ` Jeremy Baxter
2024-09-16 12:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-18 13:24   ` Po Lu
2024-09-18 13:37     ` Emanuel Berg
2024-09-18 23:31     ` Stefan Kangas
2024-09-19  2:41       ` Po Lu
2024-09-19  5:23       ` Alfred M. Szmidt [this message]
2024-09-20  8:23         ` Andrea Corallo
2024-09-19  5:49       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-09-18  3:51 ` Richard Stallman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-09-16  0:15 Martin Edström

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