Re: Request for assistance - - - saving files

2020-11-23 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Friday, 20 Nov 2020 at 08:25, o1bigtenor wrote: > H -- -- interesting that you call a vertical line a curve -- > --yes? as a mathematician, a vertical line does indeed come under the designation of curve... ;-) -- Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.4 on Debian bullseye/sid --

Re: Request for assistance - - - saving files - thinking outside the editor

2020-11-20 Thread Robin H. Johnson
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 05:46:00AM -0600, o1bigtenor wrote: > Does anyone here have any ideas, or has already implemented, on how to > save something from a text editor to multiple locations > simultaneously? (Please) I feel you need to think outside of the editor. That way you're also not forced

Re: Request for assistance - - - saving files

2020-11-20 Thread Daniele Nicolodi
On 20/11/2020 15:25, o1bigtenor wrote: > I have tried to use emacs and found that I could not find a reasonable search > tool , at least one that I could find AND use and so that dropped emacs from > my use list. Do you mean you could not find _one_ search tool but you found several extremely

Re: Request for assistance - - - saving files

2020-11-20 Thread o1bigtenor
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 7:45 AM Eric S Fraga wrote: > > On Thursday, 19 Nov 2020 at 12:30, o1bigtenor wrote: > > So - - - I'd bet this procedure in emacs is hard coded - - -yes? > > Not quite sure what you mean about hard code. In Emacs, other than the > very small core of code written in C, the

Re: Request for assistance - - - saving files

2020-11-20 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Thursday, 19 Nov 2020 at 12:30, o1bigtenor wrote: > So - - - I'd bet this procedure in emacs is hard coded - - -yes? Not quite sure what you mean about hard code. In Emacs, other than the very small core of code written in C, the code is written in Lisp and totally user accessible, meaning

Re: Request for assistance - - - saving files

2020-11-19 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On Thu, Nov 19 2020 at 12:30:59 PM, o1bigtenor wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 10:34 AM Eric S Fraga wrote: >> >> On Thursday, 19 Nov 2020 at 09:49, o1bigtenor wrote: >> > The 'TL;DR' brought a smile to my face. >> >> ;-) >> >> > This kind of function just isn't in text editors >> >> Well, this

Re: Request for assistance - - - saving files

2020-11-19 Thread Fergus Cameron
... feel I should probably qualify all that, saying, I just email myself my ledger; I don't deliver it to multiple systems but that's 'cause I already have a strategy for backing up my email -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ledger" group. To

Re: Request for assistance - - - saving files

2020-11-19 Thread Claudine Chionh
On Fri, 20 Nov 2020, at 2:37 AM, o1bigtenor wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 6:00 AM Boyd Kelly wrote: > > > > Store your ledger.dat in a private git repository (gitlab or github) and do > > a commit and push every transaction. Then you don't really even need a > > backup. > > > > Sorry - -

Re: Request for assistance - - - saving files

2020-11-19 Thread Fergus Cameron
On 19/11/2020, o1bigtenor wrote: > I am mostly a ham fisted operator when I'm working with the innards of > linux. > So I was trying to set up a symlink and managed to rm my ledger.dat file. > The backup was at least 70 if not a lot more hours of work ago. > rm is a very efficient file removal

Re: Request for assistance - - - saving files

2020-11-19 Thread o1bigtenor
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 10:34 AM Eric S Fraga wrote: > > On Thursday, 19 Nov 2020 at 09:49, o1bigtenor wrote: > > The 'TL;DR' brought a smile to my face. > > ;-) > > > This kind of function just isn't in text editors > > Well, this isn't quite true. Emacs will create backup files when you > edit

Re: Request for assistance - - - saving files

2020-11-19 Thread Eric S Fraga
On Thursday, 19 Nov 2020 at 09:49, o1bigtenor wrote: > The 'TL;DR' brought a smile to my face. ;-) > This kind of function just isn't in text editors Well, this isn't quite true. Emacs will create backup files when you edit one and you can ask Emacs to create new backups every time you save

Re: Request for assistance - - - saving files

2020-11-19 Thread o1bigtenor
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 6:25 AM Eric S Fraga wrote: > > TL;DR: I use a combination of git (as Boyd has suggested, committing > changes every transaction) and rsync to back up to a different device. The 'TL;DR' brought a smile to my face. A friend and mentor often replied to short questions with

Re: Request for assistance - - - saving files

2020-11-19 Thread o1bigtenor
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 6:00 AM Boyd Kelly wrote: > > Store your ledger.dat in a private git repository (gitlab or github) and do a > commit and push every transaction. Then you don't really even need a backup. > Sorry - - - - but my financial information doesn't leave my fingers unless I'm

Re: Request for assistance - - - saving files

2020-11-19 Thread o1bigtenor
On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 5:57 AM Vikas Rawal wrote: > > rsync and cron is not sufficient? > Hmmm - - - -you seem to have missed the comment "ham fisted operator . . . inards of LInux" - - - grin! Haven't yet had the occasion to dabble in this level of the 'black arts'. See later response as

Re: Request for assistance - - - saving files

2020-11-19 Thread Eric S Fraga
TL;DR: I use a combination of git (as Boyd has suggested, committing changes every transaction) and rsync to back up to a different device. Longer version: there are 2 different issues here: 1. micro-management of information, e.g. changes and reasons for those changes 2. keeping back ups in

Re: Request for assistance - - - saving files

2020-11-19 Thread Boyd Kelly
Store your ledger.dat in a private git repository (gitlab or github) and do a commit and push every transaction. Then you don't really even need a backup. On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 at 11:57, Vikas Rawal wrote: > rsync and cron is not sufficient? > > Vikas > > On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 at 17:16,

Re: Request for assistance - - - saving files

2020-11-19 Thread Vikas Rawal
rsync and cron is not sufficient? Vikas On Thu, 19 Nov 2020 at 17:16, o1bigtenor wrote: > Greetings > > I am mostly a ham fisted operator when I'm working with the innards of > linux. > So I was trying to set up a symlink and managed to rm my ledger.dat file. > The backup was at least 70 if

Request for assistance - - - saving files

2020-11-19 Thread o1bigtenor
Greetings I am mostly a ham fisted operator when I'm working with the innards of linux. So I was trying to set up a symlink and managed to rm my ledger.dat file. The backup was at least 70 if not a lot more hours of work ago. rm is a very efficient file removal tool so I did waste some time on