* auto-backing up your .emacs
@ 2013-12-21 14:23 Sharon Kimble
2013-12-21 14:50 ` Nathan DeGruchy
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From: Sharon Kimble @ 2013-12-21 14:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
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Can somebody help me please, I want to put this line into my .emacs -
'cp ~/.emacs ~/.emacs.d/.emacs-$(date +%Y%m%d-%R)' but it works as part
of a bash script, but I don’t know elisp to get it working in my .emacs.
What it does is save a dated and timed copy of your .emacs in your
~/.emacs.d so that when you're trying things out and learning how to
use .emacs you'll always have a backup copy. A case in point, last
night I had org2blog working, today, after fiddling its stopped
working, but if I'd had this operational I could just revert to a known
and working .emacs. So, can you help please?
Thanks
Sharon.
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2013-12-21 14:23 auto-backing up your .emacs Sharon Kimble
@ 2013-12-21 14:50 ` Nathan DeGruchy
2013-12-21 16:12 ` Alexander Baier
2013-12-21 16:16 ` Thierry Banel
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From: Nathan DeGruchy @ 2013-12-21 14:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Sharon Kimble; +Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
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You should look into version control, like Git. It makes this process easy and integrates with Emacs with the Magit package.
Nathan DeGruchy
nathan@degruchy.org
> On Dec 21, 2013, at 9:23 AM, Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@talktalk.net> wrote:
>
>
> Can somebody help me please, I want to put this line into my .emacs -
> 'cp ~/.emacs ~/.emacs.d/.emacs-$(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.
> --
> A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk
> efever = http://www.efever.blogspot.com/
> efever = http://sharon04.livejournal.com/
> my git repo = https://bitbucket.org/boudiccas/dots
> Debian testing, Fluxbox 1.3.5, LibreOffice 4.1.3.2
> Registered Linux user 561944
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* Re: auto-backing up your .emacs
2013-12-21 14:23 auto-backing up your .emacs Sharon Kimble
2013-12-21 14:50 ` Nathan DeGruchy
@ 2013-12-21 16:12 ` Alexander Baier
2013-12-21 16:16 ` Thierry Banel
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From: Alexander Baier @ 2013-12-21 16:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Sharon Kimble; +Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
You could look into the backup utilities that emacs provides out of the
box. See the manual for further explanation: (info "(Emacs) Backup").
On 2013-12-21 15:23 Sharon Kimble wrote:
> Can somebody help me please, I want to put this line into my .emacs -
> 'cp ~/.emacs ~/.emacs.d/.emacs-$(date +%Y%m%d-%R)' but it works as part
> of a bash script, but I don’t know elisp to get it working in my .emacs.
> What it does is save a dated and timed copy of your .emacs in your
> ~/.emacs.d so that when you're trying things out and learning how to
> use .emacs you'll always have a backup copy. A case in point, last
> night I had org2blog working, today, after fiddling its stopped
> working, but if I'd had this operational I could just revert to a known
> and working .emacs. So, can you help please?
>
> Thanks
> Sharon.
HTH,
--
Alexander Baier
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* Re: auto-backing up your .emacs
2013-12-21 14:23 auto-backing up your .emacs Sharon Kimble
2013-12-21 14:50 ` Nathan DeGruchy
2013-12-21 16:12 ` Alexander Baier
@ 2013-12-21 16:16 ` Thierry Banel
2013-12-21 17:07 ` Sharon Kimble
2 siblings, 1 reply; 5+ messages in thread
From: Thierry Banel @ 2013-12-21 16:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Sharon Kimble <boudiccas <at> talktalk.net> writes:
>
> Can somebody help me please, I want to put this line into my .emacs -
> 'cp ~/.emacs ~/.emacs.d/.emacs-$(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.
Hi Sharon
Emacs already have a builtin file version control.
If you use Emacs itself to edit your .emacs,
it will most likely create a .emacs~, which is a backup.
This is controlled by the variable make-backup-files.
Add this line to your .emacs:
(setq make-backup-files t)
You may want to have several backup files.
They will be numbered with names like .emacs.~7~
Then add this line to your .emacs:
(setq version-control t)
Of course this works for all files visited by Emacs, not only .emacs.
Look at the documentation:
within Emacs, type C-h i
then navigate to
Emacs > Files > Saving > Backup
Have fun
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2013-12-21 16:16 ` Thierry Banel
@ 2013-12-21 17:07 ` Sharon Kimble
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From: Sharon Kimble @ 2013-12-21 17:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
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On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 16:16:20 +0000 (UTC)
Thierry Banel <tbanelwebmin@free.fr> wrote:
> Sharon Kimble <boudiccas <at> talktalk.net> writes:
>
> >
> > 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.
>
> Hi Sharon
>
> Emacs already have a builtin file version control.
> If you use Emacs itself to edit your .emacs,
> it will most likely create a .emacs~, which is a backup.
> This is controlled by the variable make-backup-files.
> Add this line to your .emacs:
> (setq make-backup-files t)
>
> You may want to have several backup files.
> They will be numbered with names like .emacs.~7~
> Then add this line to your .emacs:
> (setq version-control t)
>
> Of course this works for all files visited by Emacs, not only .emacs.
>
> Look at the documentation:
> within Emacs, type C-h i
> then navigate to
> Emacs > Files > Saving > Backup
>
Thanks for this. I called up the package menu and found
'backup-each-save' so I've installed that to try out. Hopefully it will
work okay, but time will tell :)
Sharon.
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