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bug#12507: [debbugs-tracker] Processed: severity 12507 wishlist
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Drew Adams |
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bug#12507: [debbugs-tracker] Processed: severity 12507 wishlist |
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Wed, 26 Sep 2012 16:36:10 -0700 |
> > * Also change the default value of `bookmark-version-control'
> > to be `nil' instead of `nospecial', so that backups of the
> > bookmark data file are no longer on by default (unless there
> > are already backup files present).
>
> But how does that help a user turn backup on in the first
> place? Not a rhetorical question - I really don't know.
> How should a user create the first backup file?
>
> What would the doc suggest to the user for that? Copy the
> file to one with a `~' suffix (error prone)? Visit the
> bookmark file, type SPC then DEL, then `C-x C-s' (error prone)?
>
> What is an easy, sure way for a user who has never backed up
> a file (one that is not typically visited interactively) to create
> a backup?
>
> The question is not bookmark-specific. I don't know a good
> answer. It's probably obvious, but I'm not seeing it.
Sorry, I wasn't paying attention. It's not about creating the first backup
file, but the first numbered backup file. The question remains (how do users do
that?), but my examples were incorrect.
- bug#12507: [debbugs-tracker] Processed: severity 12507 wishlist, Drew Adams, 2012/09/25
- bug#12507: [debbugs-tracker] Processed: severity 12507 wishlist, Karl Fogel, 2012/09/26
- bug#12507: [debbugs-tracker] Processed: severity 12507 wishlist, Drew Adams, 2012/09/26
- bug#12507: [debbugs-tracker] Processed: severity 12507 wishlist,
Drew Adams <=
- bug#12507: [debbugs-tracker] Processed: severity 12507 wishlist, Karl Fogel, 2012/09/27
- bug#12507: [debbugs-tracker] Processed: severity 12507 wishlist, Drew Adams, 2012/09/27
- bug#12507: [debbugs-tracker] Processed: severity 12507 wishlist, Karl Fogel, 2012/09/27
- bug#12507: [debbugs-tracker] Processed: severity 12507 wishlist, Drew Adams, 2012/09/27
- bug#12507: [debbugs-tracker] Processed: severity 12507 wishlist, Stefan Monnier, 2012/09/26
- bug#12507: `bookmark-write-file': use `write-file', not `write-region', to get backups, Juri Linkov, 2012/09/27
- bug#12507: `bookmark-write-file': use `write-file', not `write-region', to get backups, Drew Adams, 2012/09/27