Marc Abramowitz » Numbered backups in jed

3/17/2005

March 17th 2005 Posted to Computers, General, Software, UNIX

Cool. I’d been wanting to have this for a while. Turns out that it is built into jed. Just put this in your .jedrc:

backups_on ();   % numbered backups instead of just ~ - see backups.sl

Instead of foo~, now you get foo.~1~, foo.~2~, foo.~3~, etc…

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