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The functions in this section are documented mainly because you can customize the naming conventions for backup files by redefining them. If you change one, you probably need to change the rest.
This function returns a non-nil value if filename is a possible
name for a backup file. It just checks the name, not whether a file with
the name filename exists.
(backup-file-name-p "foo")
⇒ nil
(backup-file-name-p "foo~")
⇒ 3
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The standard definition of this function is as follows:
(defun backup-file-name-p (file) "Return non-nil if FILE is a backup file \ name (numeric or not)..." (string-match "~\\'" file)) |
Thus, the function returns a non-nil value if the file name ends with
a ‘~’. (We use a backslash to split the documentation string's first
line into two lines in the text, but produce just one line in the string
itself.)
This simple expression is placed in a separate function to make it easy to redefine for customization.
This function returns a string that is the name to use for a non-numbered backup file for file filename. On Unix, this is just filename with a tilde appended.
The standard definition of this function, on most operating systems, is as follows:
(defun make-backup-file-name (file) "Create the non-numeric backup file name for FILE..." (concat file "~")) |
You can change the backup-file naming convention by redefining this
function. The following example redefines make-backup-file-name to
prepend a ‘.’ in addition to appending a tilde:
(defun make-backup-file-name (filename)
(expand-file-name
(concat "." (file-name-nondirectory filename) "~")
(file-name-directory filename)))
(make-backup-file-name "backups.texi")
⇒ ".backups.texi~"
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Some parts of Emacs, including some Dired commands, assume that backup file names end with ‘~’. If you do not follow that convention, it will not cause serious problems, but these commands may give less-than-desirable results.
This function computes the file name for a new backup file for
filename. It may also propose certain existing backup files for
deletion. find-backup-file-name returns a list whose CAR is the
name for the new backup file and whose CDR is a list of backup files
whose deletion is proposed. The value can also be nil, which means
not to make a backup.
Two variables, kept-old-versions and kept-new-versions,
determine which backup versions should be kept. This function keeps those
versions by excluding them from the CDR of the value. Voir la section Making and Deleting Numbered Backup Files.
In this example, the value says that ‘~rms/foo.~5~’ is the name to use for the new backup file, and ‘~rms/foo.~3~’ is an “excess” version that the caller should consider deleting now.
(find-backup-file-name "~rms/foo")
⇒ ("~rms/foo.~5~" "~rms/foo.~3~")
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This function returns the name of the most recent backup file for
filename, or nil if that file has no backup files.
Some file comparison commands use this function so that they can automatically compare a file with its most recent backup.
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