From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Backup filename Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 22:36:37 GMT Organization: Telia Internet Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1070577996 16008 80.91.224.253 (4 Dec 2003 22:46:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 22:46:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 04 23:46:32 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1AS2Ey-0006pC-00 for ; Thu, 04 Dec 2003 23:46:32 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AS3C9-0001NU-FL for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 04 Dec 2003 18:47:41 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!feed.news.tiscali.de!uninett.no!news.algonet.se!algonet!news-stob.telia.net!telia.net!217.209.241.173.MISMATCH!masternews.telia.net.!newsc.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 X-Accept-Language: en Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.208.134.99 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com Original-X-Trace: newsc.telia.net 1070577397 217.208.134.99 (Thu, 04 Dec 2003 23:36:37 CET) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2003 23:36:37 CET Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:119015 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:14954 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14954 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>From: "." >>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!