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bug#31050: 27.0.50; command for restoring backups
From: |
Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
bug#31050: 27.0.50; command for restoring backups |
Date: |
Thu, 3 Oct 2019 04:37:00 +0200 |
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> charles@aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli) writes:
>
> > There's already a command for recovering an "auto-save" file (M-x
> > recover-file), but no command for restoring a backup file. We should
> > add one. It might also be helpful to bind it in the "File" menu of
> > the menu-bar.
>
> Hm... Well, there may be a number of backup files (~3~ etc), while
> there's only one auto-save file... and, also, recovering an auto-save
> file is really recovering something that's a work in progress, which
> reverting to a backup file is more akin to reverting to an older version
> in a version control system.
>
> So I'm not sure whether such a command makes that much sense -- it's
> something that might be used to seldom that nobody would remember that
> it's there, and looking at old versions of files is really easy using
> any of the standard ways of looking at files.
>
> Any opinions?
Such a command doesn't make much sense to me either.
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas
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