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bug#12507: [debbugs-tracker] Processed: severity 12507 wishlist
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#12507: [debbugs-tracker] Processed: severity 12507 wishlist |
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Thu, 27 Sep 2012 09:00:39 -0700 |
> >> * Also change the default value of
> >> `bookmark-version-control' to be `nil' instead of
> >> `nospecial', so that backups of the bookmark data
> >> file are no longer on by default (unless there are
> >> already backup files present).
> >
> > But how does that help a user turn backup on in the first
> > place? Not a rhetorical question - I really don't know.
> > How should a user create the first backup file?
> >
> > What would the doc suggest to the user for that? Copy the
> > file to one with a `~' suffix (error prone)? Visit the
> > bookmark file, type SPC then DEL, then `C-x C-s' (error prone)?
> >
> > What is an easy, sure way for a user who has never backed up
> > a file (one that is not typically visited interactively) to
> > create a backup?
>
> Set `bookmark-version-control' to `t', of course.
OK, I thought of that, but that seems like a strange thing for the doc to
suggest: customize it to `t', save your bookmark file, then re/un-customize it
back to the default, `nil'.
Is that really the best recommendation? I have no special problem with it, but
somehow I was expecting something else.
Whatever the recommended procedure is, I think the doc (for this and
`version-control') should suggest it to users.
- bug#12507: [debbugs-tracker] Processed: severity 12507 wishlist, (continued)
- bug#12507: [debbugs-tracker] Processed: severity 12507 wishlist, Karl Fogel, 2012/09/26
- bug#12507: [debbugs-tracker] Processed: severity 12507 wishlist, Drew Adams, 2012/09/26
- bug#12507: [debbugs-tracker] Processed: severity 12507 wishlist, Drew Adams, 2012/09/26
- bug#12507: [debbugs-tracker] Processed: severity 12507 wishlist, Karl Fogel, 2012/09/27
- bug#12507: [debbugs-tracker] Processed: severity 12507 wishlist,
Drew Adams <=
- bug#12507: [debbugs-tracker] Processed: severity 12507 wishlist, Karl Fogel, 2012/09/27
- bug#12507: [debbugs-tracker] Processed: severity 12507 wishlist, Drew Adams, 2012/09/27
- bug#12507: [debbugs-tracker] Processed: severity 12507 wishlist, Stefan Monnier, 2012/09/26
- bug#12507: `bookmark-write-file': use `write-file', not `write-region', to get backups, Juri Linkov, 2012/09/27
- bug#12507: `bookmark-write-file': use `write-file', not `write-region', to get backups, Drew Adams, 2012/09/27