Re: [O] auto-backing up your .emacs

2013-12-21 Thread Sharon Kimble
On Sat, 21 Dec 2013 16:16:20 + (UTC) Thierry Banel wrote: > Sharon Kimble 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

Re: [O] auto-backing up your .emacs

2013-12-21 Thread Thierry Banel
Sharon Kimble 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 ti

Re: [O] auto-backing up your .emacs

2013-12-21 Thread Alexander Baier
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 +%

Re: [O] auto-backing up your .emacs

2013-12-21 Thread Nathan DeGruchy
You should look into version control, like Git. It makes this process easy and integrates with Emacs with the Magit package. Nathan DeGruchy nat...@degruchy.org > On Dec 21, 2013, at 9:23 AM, Sharon Kimble wrote: > > > Can somebody help me please, I want to put this line into my .emacs - > '

[O] auto-backing up your .emacs

2013-12-21 Thread Sharon Kimble
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 th