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Re: numbered backups


From: Pascal J. Bourguignon
Subject: Re: numbered backups
Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 04:37:02 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux)

Steven Arntson <steven@stevenarntson.com> writes:

> I know I read how to do this somewhere, but can't find it now. I'd like
> emacs to name my backup files not as
>
> file.org.~1~
> file.org.~2~
>
> but rather as
>
> file.org.~001~
> file.org.~002~
>
> is there a variable I could call up from M-x customize to influence this
> behavior?

See the variable make-backup-file-name-function 
and the function make-backup-file-name

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__Pascal Bourguignon__
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