From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/3865 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: larsi@ifi.uio.no (Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: numbered backups & version-control Date: 06 Nov 1995 14:32:54 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway Sender: larsi@ifi.uio.no Message-ID: References: <9511031058.AA04463@sunthpi3.sunthpi> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035144687 27629 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 20:11:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 20:11:27 +0000 (UTC) X-From-Line: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Mon Nov 6 07:36:16 1995 Return-Path: ding-request@ifi.uio.no Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by miranova.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id HAA04808 for ; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 07:36:13 -0800 Original-Received: from narfi.ifi.uio.no (narfi.ifi.uio.no [129.240.94.17]) by ifi.uio.no with SMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Mon, 6 Nov 1995 14:32:56 +0100 Original-Received: from ) by narfi.ifi.uio.no ; Mon, 6 Nov 95 14:32:55 +0100 Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: campo@sunthpi3.difi.unipi.it's message of Fri, 3 Nov 95 11:58:39 +0100 Original-Lines: 15 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3865 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:3865 campo@sunthpi3.difi.unipi.it (Massimo Campostrini) writes: > But it is really too much for files generated automatically, such as > `.newsrc.eld' and `.newsrc'. rmail mode solves this by never making > numbered backups of mail files (by making `version-control' local to > the buffer and setting it to `never'). > > I would like a similar behavior from gnus (maybe as an option, > although I can't see anybody needing six old versions of `.newsrc.eld' > backed up). Yup. I've done this in September 0.13. -- Home is where the cat is.