Re: Numbered backups

"Marco Antoniotti (as marco dot antoniotti at unimib dot it)" <[email protected]>
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Thanks.

Yep.  I know about the rest.  I am using magit this day and age: it is very
nice.

MA

On Thu, Feb 12, 2026 at 2:09 PM <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 2026-02-12 06:22, Marco Antoniotti (as marco dot antoniotti at unimib
> dot it) wrote:
> > How do you tell Emacs to keep numbered backups?
>
> (setq version-control t) ; make numbered backup files unconditionally.
> or M-x customize and search for version
>
>                 Peace
>                         --Devon
>
> P.S.  Emacs also supports Bzr, CSSC, CVS, Git, Hg, RCS, SCCS, Src and
> Svn -
> look for version control in the manual.
>


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