Re: .newsrc.eld backups (was: I am an idiot.)

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

Mike Fabian <mike.fabian@gmx.de> writes:

|> Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> writes:
|> 
|> > Mike Fabian <mike.fabian@gmx.de> writes:
|> > 
|> > > but no extra backups are created for .newsrc.eld:
|> > 
|> > Probably because of the following line in gnus-save-newsrc-file:
|> > 
|> > (setq version-control 'never)
|> 
|> I see. Thank you.
|> 
|> But why is this done? The .newsrc.eld seems to be a very important
|> file, and it might be very nice to have some more backups of
|> .newsrc.eld. 
|> 
|> Isn't it weird to explicitly prohibit extra backups of .newsrc.eld?

Well, you can easily undo it by setting it in the
gnus-save-quick-newsrc-hook.

Andreas.

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