Re: Gratuitous user interface change risks losing user work

[Gregory Stark]

"Chris Moore" <address@hidden> writes:

> Gregory Stark <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> This is awful. I just lost several days of work
>
> When you typed 'yes' and hit return to say you wanted to save your
> work, Emacs will have made a backup of the file you were overwriting
> in <filename>~.

No, it didn't; I looked. The latest backup file I had was a couple weeks old.

On that note I was wondering if there was any option to have emacs make more
backup files. It seems it only does so when I first save the file after
visiting it. But I normally only start a new Emacs when it crashes or I have
to reboot my machine which isn't very often. So I end up without many backup
files.

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  Gregory Stark
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