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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: "'Emacs Developers'" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Suggestion: create new file backups following turn of day
Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 13:08:14 +0300 (IDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1020529130744.1847C-100000@is> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <FC3DA3DC8D4AD311AB910020352A8FDC0BC62DB6@eagle.midas-kapiti.com>


On Wed, 29 May 2002, Marshall, Simon wrote:

> 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?

I think this would be a useful feature.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-29 10:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-29  9:08 Suggestion: create new file backups following turn of day Marshall, Simon
2002-05-29 10:08 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2002-05-29 15:09 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2002-05-29 22:08   ` Miles Bader
2002-05-30 17:04 ` Richard Stallman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-29  9:48 Colin Walters

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