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bug#56291: 29.0.50; version-control versus gnus-backup-startup-file
From: |
Mike Kupfer |
Subject: |
bug#56291: 29.0.50; version-control versus gnus-backup-startup-file |
Date: |
Tue, 28 Jun 2022 18:00:07 -0700 |
Awhile back, I wanted to get numbered backup files for my Gnus
.newsrc.eld file, at least for a few days until I figured out why it was
getting trashed occasionally. It took me quite some time to get it to
work, because I didn't know about gnus-backup-startup-file, and I
misunderstood part of the Info page "Backup Names". That page says
You can have Emacs set ‘version-control’ locally whenever you visit
a given file (*note File Variables::). Some modes, such as Rmail
mode, set this variable.
I think that last sentence would be clearer as
Some packages, such as Rmail, override the global setting of
‘version-control’ in this manner.
thanks,
mike
- bug#56291: 29.0.50; version-control versus gnus-backup-startup-file,
Mike Kupfer <=
- bug#56291: 29.0.50; version-control versus gnus-backup-startup-file, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/06/29
- bug#56291: 29.0.50; version-control versus gnus-backup-startup-file, Mike Kupfer, 2022/06/29
- bug#56291: 29.0.50; version-control versus gnus-backup-startup-file, Mike Kupfer, 2022/06/29
- bug#56291: 29.0.50; version-control versus gnus-backup-startup-file, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/06/29
- bug#56291: 29.0.50; version-control versus gnus-backup-startup-file, Mike Kupfer, 2022/06/29
- bug#56291: 29.0.50; version-control versus gnus-backup-startup-file, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/06/29
- bug#56291: 29.0.50; version-control versus gnus-backup-startup-file, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2022/06/30