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bug#56291: 29.0.50; version-control versus gnus-backup-startup-file
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#56291: 29.0.50; version-control versus gnus-backup-startup-file |
Date: |
Wed, 29 Jun 2022 12:22:12 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu> writes:
> 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.
I don't think that's correct, though? rmail-mode doesn't use file
variables, it does:
(setq-local version-control 'never)
So it doesn't set version-control "in this manner", as far as I can tell?
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- bug#56291: 29.0.50; version-control versus gnus-backup-startup-file, Mike Kupfer, 2022/06/28
- bug#56291: 29.0.50; version-control versus gnus-backup-startup-file,
Lars Ingebrigtsen <=
- 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