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From: Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: gnus should backup .newsrc.eld
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:54:52 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uiqpp4nhv.fsf@dod.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84r64e9jry.fsf@incoming.verizon.net>

>>>>> Dave Goldberg <david.goldberg6@verizon.net>:

> Mine does.  I always have .newsrc.eld~ with the previous version.  I
> don't see anything in my settings that suggests I've done something
> special to have it.

Ah... mine don't, because of this setting in .emacs:
(setq make-backup-files nil)

(The setting goes back to 1993-1995, and PC-NFS becoming very confused
when new versions of files got new inodes (ie. when I edited a file in
emacs on unix, programs on the PC still saw the old version).  I could
change this now, I guess... but I've never had much use for the ~
backups so losing them was actually losing a nuisance.  The autosave
files on the other hand, them I could not do without)




  reply	other threads:[~2008-12-12 11:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-12  1:15 jidanni
2008-12-12  3:04 ` Dave Goldberg
2008-12-12 11:54   ` Steinar Bang [this message]
2008-12-12 18:15     ` Andreas Schwab
2008-12-15 17:21       ` jidanni
2008-12-15 19:40         ` Reiner Steib
2008-12-15 23:34         ` Steinar Bang
2008-12-16 17:58           ` jidanni
2008-12-12  3:17 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2008-12-12  5:17   ` jidanni
2008-12-12  6:46     ` Tassilo Horn
2008-12-12 11:57   ` Steinar Bang

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