I just installed the mkback emacs lisp package and wanted to recommend it to those of you who probably don't scour gnu.emacs.sources on a daily basis, as I do. It's a nice, lightweight backup system. With a keystroke, say C-c~, it creates a backup of the file you are working on. Say you are editing
~/python/bin/somefile.py When you execute the backup command, it will create ~/backup/python/bin/somefile-2002-05-04.py With multiple backups per day using automatic suffixes like ~/backup/python/bin/somefile-2002-05-04a.py There is flexibility in which backup dir is used. For example, if the dir ~/python/backup exists, the backup file will be ~/python/backup/bin/somefile-2002-05-04.py (require 'mkback) (mkback-install-for-eshell) (define-key global-map "\C-c~" 'mkback-this-buffer-doit)
mkback.el
Description: application/emacs-lisp
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