Re: [O] auto-backing up your .emacs

[Nathan DeGruchy]

You should look into version control, like Git. It makes this process easy and integrates with Emacs with the Magit package. 

Nathan DeGruchy

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On Dec 21, 2013, at 9:23 AM, Sharon Kimble <address@hidden> wrote:

Can somebody help me please, I want to put this line into my .emacs -
'cp ~/.emacs ~/.emacs.d/.emacs-$(date +%Y%m%d-%R)' but it works as part
of a bash script, but I don’t know elisp to get it working in my .emacs.
What it does is save a dated and timed copy of your .emacs in your
~/.emacs.d so that when you're trying things out and learning how to
use .emacs you'll always have a backup copy. A case in point, last
night I had org2blog working, today, after fiddling its stopped
working, but if I'd had this operational I could just revert to a known
and working .emacs. So, can you help please?

Thanks
Sharon.
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