From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Marshall, Simon" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Suggestion: create new file backups following turn of day Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 10:08:57 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1022663502 32734 127.0.0.1 (29 May 2002 09:11:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 09:11:42 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 17CzUc-0008Vr-00 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 11:11:42 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17Czmq-0007qO-00 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 11:30:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17CzVA-0008BK-00; Wed, 29 May 2002 05:12:16 -0400 Original-Received: from mail17.messagelabs.com ([62.231.131.67]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 17CzSA-000810-00 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 05:09:10 -0400 X-VirusChecked: Checked Original-Received: (qmail 13964 invoked from network); 29 May 2002 09:09:00 -0000 Original-Received: from gull.midas-kapiti.com (HELO pigeon.misys.com) (193.115.208.67) by server-12.tower-17.messagelabs.com with SMTP; 29 May 2002 09:09:00 -0000 Original-Received: FROM gull.misys.com BY pigeon.misys.com ; Wed May 29 10:08:59 2002 +0100 Original-Received: by GULL with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Wed, 29 May 2002 10:09:00 +0100 Original-To: 'Emacs Developers' X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:4475 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:4475 Hi folks, Now that Exceed doesn't crash on a regular basis, I find that I run many Emacs sessions for days or even a whole working week. Unfortunately, for those Emacs sessions, this means that the only backups I have for files I visit in those sessions are days old or even a whole week. For example: I start Emacs on Monday and visit some files. I spend the whole week making edits & saving the files, but on Thurs I realise I want some change I made earlier in the week to one of the files, maybe Monday or Tuesday I can't quite remember, that I deleted a day or so later. I check the backup files only to discover there's only one for each modified file---the one Emacs made the first time I saved on Monday. The backup file is from the previous Friday. I realise I can do C-u C-x C-s on an individual file, but that requires me remembering (a) to do it, (b) whether I've done it already that day given the large number of files I might be editing and (c) I save with C-u C-x s because I tend to modify more than one file at a time. What I would like is to be able to tell Emacs to automatically make backups on a daily basis, not just the first time I save a visited file. Or maybe some other configuration, e.g., make a backup when saving after a number of hours since the last backup was made for the visited file. WDYT? Simon. Simon Marshall, Misys International Banking Systems 1 St. George's Road, Wimbledon, London SW19 4DR, UK Email: simon.marshall@misys.com Web: www.misys.com Phone: +44 20 8879 1188 Fax: +44 20 8879 1764