Re: Gratuitous user interface change risks losing user work

[Gregory Stark]

"Chris Moore" <address@hidden> writes:

> Gregory Stark <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> No, it didn't; I looked. The latest backup file I had was a couple weeks old.
>
> OK.  I didn't test this much, but I thought when I did that I saw it
> make a backup at that point.

I think it will if it's the first time you're saving the buffer since you
created it. But I tend to keep my emacs processes live for weeks or even
months. So I get one backup file and then no protection from then on.

>   Prefixed with two C-u's, unconditionally makes the previous version
>   into a backup file.

I think what I want is an option to make this the default behaviour.

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  Gregory Stark
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