Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!mrd From: mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Mike DeCorte) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Writing code by hand (was: Basics of Program Design) Message-ID:Date: 8 Jul 88 04:24:16 GMT References: <900@td2cad.intel.com> <3537@pdn.UUCP> <1559@microsoft.UUCP> <1335@hp-sdd.HP.COM> <1398@lznv.ATT.COM> Sender: mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Distribution: na Organization: Clarkson University Lines: 20 In-reply-to: psc@lznv.ATT.COM's message of 6 Jul 88 13:41:51 GMT You often find that the old stuff you wanted was in n+1 versions ago. This fear discourages you from saving your work often, which can have other bad effects. In gnu emacs, there are the following variable that *you* can set. make-backup-files (nil or non-nill) kept-old-versions (a number, default 2) kept-new-versions (a number, default 2) Using this you can choose n. If you like you could make n=# of files you can put on our disk. I wouldn't advise it, but you could. :-) -- Michael DeCorte // (315)268-2292 // P.O. Box 652, Potsdam, NY 13676 Internet mrd@sun.soe.clarkson.edu // Bitnet mrd@clutx.bitnet