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From: Thierry Banel <tbanelwebmin@free.fr>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: auto-backing up your .emacs
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 16:16:20 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20131221T171137-240@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20131221142330.4927760a@london

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

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2013-12-21 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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 [this message]
2013-12-21 17:07   ` Sharon Kimble

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