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Re: Making a backup file on every buffer save?
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Alain Ketterlin |
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Re: Making a backup file on every buffer save? |
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Tue, 24 May 2011 20:01:44 -0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> writes:
> The docs say:
>
> "Emacs makes a backup for a file only the first time the file is
> saved from a buffer. No matter how many times you subsequently save
> the file, its backup remains unchanged. However, if you kill the
> buffer and then visit the file again, a new backup file will be made."
>
> Is there any way to override this and get a backup file on every
> buffer save? I'm using GNU Emacs 23.1.1.
A few paragraphs later, the doc mentions that C-u C-u C-x C-s should do
what you want (but I guess auto-save is supposed to solve the kind of
problem you had). Or you can call make-backup explicitly.
-- Alain.