From: "." <a.b@c.de>
Subject: Re: Backup filename
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 22:36:37 GMT [thread overview]
Message-ID: <VFOzb.40721$dP1.154265@newsc.telia.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.1022.1070527644.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>From: "." <a.b@c.de>
>>Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
>>Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 19:22:20 GMT
>>
>>Could someone tell me how to move my backups to ~/.backups and have them
>>named something like "|home|me|.emacs.1" and then "|home|me|.emacs.2",
>>"|home|me|.emacs.3" and so on. I can't get make-backup-file-name to work
>>on 21.?
>
>
> Why did you go directly to make-backup-file-name? There's a simpler
> facility; see the doc string of backup-directory-alist. Any reasons
> why it won't do what you want?
>
>
>
1) Somebody told me it was the way to go.
2) Will do!
3) No idea, will check and get back. For now, ebackup.el is ok by me.
Thanks Eli!
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-12-03 19:22 Backup filename .
2003-12-03 21:54 ` gebser
2003-12-04 7:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-04 12:52 ` Sikkan
2003-12-04 22:32 ` .
[not found] ` <mailman.1022.1070527644.399.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-12-04 22:36 ` . [this message]
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