From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: version-control and make-backup-file-name-function Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:41:09 -0600 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219131705 14366 80.91.229.12 (19 Aug 2008 07:41:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:41:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 19 09:42:38 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KVLrQ-00052T-H0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:42:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59599 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KVLqT-00085j-9M for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:41:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KVLq7-00082M-Uq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:41:16 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KVLq6-000804-7q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:41:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=48366 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KVLq5-0007zh-Ve for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:41:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:27482) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KVLq5-0005qB-FG for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:41:13 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KVLq4-0006rM-Kw for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 03:41:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KVLq3-0002tL-3y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:41:11 +0000 Original-Received: from c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([67.161.145.183]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:41:11 +0000 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:41:11 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 41 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-67-161-145-183.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Macintosh/20080707) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:56767 Archived-At: Florian Lindner wrote: > Hello, > > I'm bringing this up again, since my question in the old thread [1] > produced no more answers... > > I have a customized backup function: > > (defun my-backup-file-name (fpath) > (let (backup-root bpath) > (setq backup-root "~/.emacs.d/backup") > (setq bpath (concat backup-root fpath "~")) > (make-directory (file-name-directory bpath) bpath) > bpath > ) > ) > > combinded with the backup settings: > > (setq make-backup-file-name-function 'my-backup-file-name > version-control t > delete-old-versions t > kept-new-versions 6 > kept-old-versions 2) > > > When uncommenting make-backup-file-name-function it works with backups > in the same dir as the original. With make-backup-file-name-function > there are backups in the .emacs/backup dir but only the first version > which is never updated. I suspect it's a problem with the creation of > the backup file name for the n-th version. > > Anyone got an idea how to combine versioned backups and custom > location? Try setting backup-directory-alist instead of make-backup-file-name-function. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA