From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67890 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: gnus should backup .newsrc.eld Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:54:52 +0100 Organization: Probably a good idea Message-ID: References: <87vdtqb3dr.fsf@jidanni.org> <84r64e9jry.fsf@incoming.verizon.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1229082930 3077 80.91.229.12 (12 Dec 2008 11:55:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:55:30 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M16336@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Dec 12 12:56:35 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LB6dF-0006iN-88 for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:56:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LB6bx-00082Z-2r; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:55:13 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LB6bv-00082L-CG for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:55:11 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LB6bs-0001zM-HA for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 05:55:11 -0600 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1LB6c5-000872-00 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:55:21 +0100 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LB6bl-0001r9-Kq for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:55:01 +0000 Original-Received: from tide131.microsoft.com ([213.199.128.156]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:55:01 +0000 Original-Received: from sb by tide131.microsoft.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:55:01 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: tide131.microsoft.com Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/22.3 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:+9V8l7hh3A2D8F4YD2MGLWXV+LE= X-Spam-Score: -3.5 (---) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67890 Archived-At: >>>>> Dave Goldberg : > 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)