Greg Hemphill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on Thursday, September 4, 2008:
>responses intermixed below... > >On Sep 4, 2008, at 12:16 PM, Bill wrote: > >>> From what I understand, "Make Backup Before Saving" is now "global >>> and >> backups can no longer be made on a per-file basis." (page 228 of the >> manual). However, you can ugly up your document with Emacs comments >> (vim user here - no, lets not go to war) to prevent or maybe allow >> backups on an individual basis. > >Thanks for pointing out the new backup features... read through it. >Doesn't sound very useful for my case. I guess they consider this a >replacement??? Maybe they thought making a single file backups wasn't >used??? The documentation makes the new feature sound like a bear to >manage, like they are trying to use it instead of svn or something >like that. > >I'm thinking the easiest replacement for the old feature is going to >be using the finder to duplicate a file and rename it for backup >purposes... shame they got rid of this. As a web developer dealing with tons of files and multiple simultaneous projects, we have BBEdit set to keep backups in the folder where the original document lives. The reason is that our sites typically use a common framework then are tweaked and modified a bit on a per-site basis. So the sites have the exact same folder structure and set of filenames. It is not viable to store these backups in one location, as you would have no clue which site they came from. Next to useless. >I'm thinking the easiest replacement for the old feature is going to >be using the finder to duplicate a file and rename it for backup >purposes... shame they got rid of this. That is totally not practical for us, and would be a deal-killer. I have purchased v. 9 and will be using it, but if there is no way to save backups automatically to the same folder, I probably won't use v. 9 and instead stay with 8. Hope the new search features work well, as that is one thing I use scores of times/day, maybe hundreds of times, and is why I continue to stay with BBEdit instead of Eclipse, Coda, or Textmate. --Eric P.S. Before it gets said by somebody, we do have a Subversion server, and use it. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BBEdit Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to bbedit@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bbedit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
