Re: Numbered backups

"Marco Antoniotti (as marco dot antoniotti at unimib dot it)" <[email protected]>
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How do you tell Emacs to keep numbered backups?

(Asking is better than searching; or asking Claude)

MA

On Thu, Feb 12, 2026 at 1:18 PM Tim Bradshaw (as tfb at tfeb dot org) <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Emacs can keep numbered backups for files.  Does anyone have anything
> which would let the LW editor do the same thing?
>
> The reason for asking is that sometimes I find myself working on things
> where I change my mind frequently about what I want it to do and I don't
> want to make a commit each time: just having a bunch of files which I could
> go back to would be really useful.
>
> --tim
>
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