GNU bug report logs - #31050
27.0.50; command for restoring backups

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: charles <at> aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli)

Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 18:06:01 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Tags: wontfix

Found in version 27.0.50

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

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From: charles <at> aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli)
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 27.0.50; command for restoring backups
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2018 20:06:16 +0200
There's already a command for recovering an "auto-save" file (M-x
recover-file), but no command for restoring a backup file.  We should
add one.  It might also be helpful to bind it in the "File" menu of
the menu-bar.




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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: charles <at> aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli)
Cc: 31050 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31050: 27.0.50; command for restoring backups
Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 15:27:58 +0200
charles <at> aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli) writes:

> There's already a command for recovering an "auto-save" file (M-x
> recover-file), but no command for restoring a backup file.  We should
> add one.  It might also be helpful to bind it in the "File" menu of
> the menu-bar.

Hm...  Well, there may be a number of backup files (~3~ etc), while
there's only one auto-save file...  and, also, recovering an auto-save
file is really recovering something that's a work in progress, which
reverting to a backup file is more akin to reverting to an older version
in a version control system.

So I'm not sure whether such a command makes that much sense -- it's
something that might be used to seldom that nobody would remember that
it's there, and looking at old versions of files is really easy using
any of the standard ways of looking at files.

Any opinions?

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no




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From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 31050 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, "Charles A. Roelli" <charles <at> aurox.ch>
Subject: Re: bug#31050: 27.0.50; command for restoring backups
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 04:37:00 +0200
Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> charles <at> aurox.ch (Charles A. Roelli) writes:
>
> > There's already a command for recovering an "auto-save" file (M-x
> > recover-file), but no command for restoring a backup file.  We should
> > add one.  It might also be helpful to bind it in the "File" menu of
> > the menu-bar.
>
> Hm...  Well, there may be a number of backup files (~3~ etc), while
> there's only one auto-save file...  and, also, recovering an auto-save
> file is really recovering something that's a work in progress, which
> reverting to a backup file is more akin to reverting to an older version
> in a version control system.
>
> So I'm not sure whether such a command makes that much sense -- it's
> something that might be used to seldom that nobody would remember that
> it's there, and looking at old versions of files is really easy using
> any of the standard ways of looking at files.
>
> Any opinions?

Such a command doesn't make much sense to me either.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas




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Message #14 received at 31050 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 31050 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, "Charles A. Roelli" <charles <at> aurox.ch>
Subject: Re: bug#31050: 27.0.50; command for restoring backups
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 16:59:19 +0200
Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se> writes:

> Such a command doesn't make much sense to me either.

OK; closing as "wontfix".

-- 
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
   bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no




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Message #21 received at 31050 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: 31050 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, larsi <at> gnus.org, charles <at> aurox.ch
Subject: Re: bug#31050: 27.0.50; command for restoring backups
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 19:03:35 +0300
> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2019 04:37:00 +0200
> Cc: 31050 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, "Charles A. Roelli" <charles <at> aurox.ch>
> 
> > Hm...  Well, there may be a number of backup files (~3~ etc), while
> > there's only one auto-save file...  and, also, recovering an auto-save
> > file is really recovering something that's a work in progress, which
> > reverting to a backup file is more akin to reverting to an older version
> > in a version control system.
> >
> > So I'm not sure whether such a command makes that much sense -- it's
> > something that might be used to seldom that nobody would remember that
> > it's there, and looking at old versions of files is really easy using
> > any of the standard ways of looking at files.
> >
> > Any opinions?
> 
> Such a command doesn't make much sense to me either.

Doesn't revert-buffer already provide this capability?




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