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From: Roy Smith <roy@panix.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Making a backup file on every buffer save?
Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 08:32:19 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ff406a1b-3e68-4bfc-8fe8-f25d7d58bb73@m4g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87zkn5dvh1.fsf@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr

On May 2, 10:32 am, Alain Ketterlin <al...@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr>
wrote:
> Roy Smith <r...@panix.com> writes:
> > The docs say:
>
> > "Emacs makes a backup for a file only the first time the file is
> > saved from a buffer.  No matter how many times you subsequently save
> > the file, its backup remains unchanged.  However, if you kill the
> > buffer and then visit the file again, a new backup file will be made."
>
> > Is there any way to override this and get a backup file on every
> > buffer save?  I'm using GNU Emacs 23.1.1.
>
> A few paragraphs later, the doc mentions that C-u C-u C-x C-s should do
> what you want (but I guess auto-save is supposed to solve the kind of
> problem you had). Or you can call make-backup explicitly.
>
> -- Alain.

Oh, duh.  I just didn't read far enough.  Thanks for pointing that
out!


      reply	other threads:[~2011-05-02 15:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-02 14:17 Making a backup file on every buffer save? Roy Smith
2011-05-02 14:32 ` Alain Ketterlin
2011-05-02 15:32   ` Roy Smith [this message]

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