You could look into the backup utilities that emacs provides out of the box. See the manual for further explanation: (info "(Emacs) Backup").
On 2013-12-21 15:23 Sharon Kimble wrote: > Can somebody help me please, I want to put this line into my .emacs - > 'cp ~/.emacs ~/.emacs.d/.emacs-$(date +%Y%m%d-%R)' but it works as part > of a bash script, but I don’t know elisp to get it working in my .emacs. > What it does is save a dated and timed copy of your .emacs in your > ~/.emacs.d so that when you're trying things out and learning how to > use .emacs you'll always have a backup copy. A case in point, last > night I had org2blog working, today, after fiddling its stopped > working, but if I'd had this operational I could just revert to a known > and working .emacs. So, can you help please? > > Thanks > Sharon. HTH, -- Alexander Baier