RE: savevers plugin

2007-05-03 Thread Waters, Bill
Rollover would occur at the savevers_max value.  In this example,
savevers_max is set to 99.

-rw-r- 1 eralston admin  226 Sep 20 11:43 test.txt
-rw-r- 1 eralston admin  106 Sep 20 11:14 test.txt.0098.clean
-rw-r- 1 eralston admin  132 Sep 20 11:22 test.txt.0099.clean
-rw-r- 1 eralston admin  148 Sep 20 11:34 test.txt..clean


-Original Message-
From: Suresh Govindachar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 8:20 AM
To: 'Yakov Lerner'; Waters, Bill
Cc: vim@vim.org
Subject: RE: savevers plugin



OP wants to save 4 copies only but with "true" version numbers (rather
than "relative" version numbers of 0, 1, 2, 3).

--Suresh 

-Original Message-
From: Yakov Lerner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 11:39 PM
To: Waters, Bill
Cc: vim@vim.org
Subject: Re: savevers plugin

On 5/3/07, Waters, Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am looking at using the savevers plugin.  I don't think it does
> exactly what I am looking for.

Why don't you set savevers_max to 9 ?
Do you plan to have more than 9 versions ? (if I underdtand
your request right).

Otherwise, your request sounds strange. It sounds like this:
"I want to set savevers_max to 3, and I want savevers to ignore this".

It's like "I want vim to go to line 10 when I tell him to go to line 5".

Why would you want to set savevers_max to wrong value instead of
desired value (999) in the first place ?

Yakov

> I want the old version of my file to be
> saved regardless of what savevers_max is set to.  If I set
savevers_max
> to three and I save for the fourth time, I want the oldest, saved
> version of the file to be deleted and I want my latest last-version to
> be saved.
>
> My files would go from this...
>
> -rw-r- 1 eralston admin  226 Sep 20 11:43 test.txt
> -rw-r- 1 eralston admin  102 Sep 20 11:12 test.txt.0001.clean
> -rw-r- 1 eralston admin  106 Sep 20 11:14 test.txt.0002.clean
> -rw-r- 1 eralston admin  132 Sep 20 11:22 test.txt.0003.clean
>
> To this...
>
> -rw-r- 1 eralston admin  226 Sep 20 11:43 test.txt
> -rw-r- 1 eralston admin  106 Sep 20 11:14 test.txt.0002.clean
> -rw-r- 1 eralston admin  132 Sep 20 11:22 test.txt.0003.clean
> -rw-r- 1 eralston admin  148 Sep 20 11:34 test.txt.0004.clean
>
> Anyway to do this?  Anybody already hacked savevers to do this?  Or
have
> some clever mappings to handle this?
>
> A related question... is there a way to use a single backup directory
> for all files?  I think it would need to have a way to make all file
> names unique.  So that saving /dir1/a.txt wouldn't clobber over
> /dir2/a.txt.
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>



RE: savevers plugin

2007-05-03 Thread Waters, Bill
I don't want to have to remember to periodically purge the backup files.
And I don't want the backups to string on forever and fill my harddrive.

In actual practice, I would set savevers_max to 100 or 1000.  The backup
function would be running and I wouldn't ever have to think about it,
other then when I need to access old data.

I also want it out of site, thus the questions about having one backup
directory and the need to make file names unique.


-Original Message-
From: Yakov Lerner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, May 03, 2007 1:39 AM
To: Waters, Bill
Cc: vim@vim.org
Subject: Re: savevers plugin

On 5/3/07, Waters, Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am looking at using the savevers plugin.  I don't think it does
> exactly what I am looking for.

Why don't you set savevers_max to 9 ?
Do you plan to have more than 9 versions ? (if I underdtand
your request right).

Otherwise, your request sounds strange. It sounds like this:
"I want to set savevers_max to 3, and I want savevers to ignore this".

It's like "I want vim to go to line 10 when I tell him to go to line 5".

Why would you want to set savevers_max to wrong value instead of
desired value (999) in the first place ?

Yakov

> I want the old version of my file to be
> saved regardless of what savevers_max is set to.  If I set
savevers_max
> to three and I save for the fourth time, I want the oldest, saved
> version of the file to be deleted and I want my latest last-version to
> be saved.
>
> My files would go from this...
>
> -rw-r- 1 eralston admin  226 Sep 20 11:43 test.txt
> -rw-r- 1 eralston admin  102 Sep 20 11:12 test.txt.0001.clean
> -rw-r- 1 eralston admin  106 Sep 20 11:14 test.txt.0002.clean
> -rw-r- 1 eralston admin  132 Sep 20 11:22 test.txt.0003.clean
>
> To this...
>
> -rw-r- 1 eralston admin  226 Sep 20 11:43 test.txt
> -rw-r- 1 eralston admin  106 Sep 20 11:14 test.txt.0002.clean
> -rw-r- 1 eralston admin  132 Sep 20 11:22 test.txt.0003.clean
> -rw-r- 1 eralston admin  148 Sep 20 11:34 test.txt.0004.clean
>
> Anyway to do this?  Anybody already hacked savevers to do this?  Or
have
> some clever mappings to handle this?
>
> A related question... is there a way to use a single backup directory
> for all files?  I think it would need to have a way to make all file
> names unique.  So that saving /dir1/a.txt wouldn't clobber over
> /dir2/a.txt.
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>


RE: savevers plugin

2007-05-03 Thread Suresh Govindachar


OP wants to save 4 copies only but with "true" version numbers (rather than 
"relative" version numbers of 0, 1, 2, 3).

--Suresh 

-Original Message-
From: Yakov Lerner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2007 11:39 PM
To: Waters, Bill
Cc: vim@vim.org
Subject: Re: savevers plugin

On 5/3/07, Waters, Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am looking at using the savevers plugin.  I don't think it does
> exactly what I am looking for.

Why don't you set savevers_max to 9 ?
Do you plan to have more than 9 versions ? (if I underdtand
your request right).

Otherwise, your request sounds strange. It sounds like this:
"I want to set savevers_max to 3, and I want savevers to ignore this".

It's like "I want vim to go to line 10 when I tell him to go to line 5".

Why would you want to set savevers_max to wrong value instead of
desired value (999) in the first place ?

Yakov

> I want the old version of my file to be
> saved regardless of what savevers_max is set to.  If I set savevers_max
> to three and I save for the fourth time, I want the oldest, saved
> version of the file to be deleted and I want my latest last-version to
> be saved.
>
> My files would go from this...
>
> -rw-r- 1 eralston admin  226 Sep 20 11:43 test.txt
> -rw-r- 1 eralston admin  102 Sep 20 11:12 test.txt.0001.clean
> -rw-r- 1 eralston admin  106 Sep 20 11:14 test.txt.0002.clean
> -rw-r- 1 eralston admin  132 Sep 20 11:22 test.txt.0003.clean
>
> To this...
>
> -rw-r- 1 eralston admin  226 Sep 20 11:43 test.txt
> -rw-r- 1 eralston admin  106 Sep 20 11:14 test.txt.0002.clean
> -rw-r- 1 eralston admin  132 Sep 20 11:22 test.txt.0003.clean
> -rw-r- 1 eralston admin  148 Sep 20 11:34 test.txt.0004.clean
>
> Anyway to do this?  Anybody already hacked savevers to do this?  Or have
> some clever mappings to handle this?
>
> A related question... is there a way to use a single backup directory
> for all files?  I think it would need to have a way to make all file
> names unique.  So that saving /dir1/a.txt wouldn't clobber over
> /dir2/a.txt.
>
> Thanks,
> Bill
>



Re: savevers plugin

2007-05-02 Thread Yakov Lerner

On 5/3/07, Waters, Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I am looking at using the savevers plugin.  I don't think it does
exactly what I am looking for.


Why don't you set savevers_max to 9 ?
Do you plan to have more than 9 versions ? (if I underdtand
your request right).

Otherwise, your request sounds strange. It sounds like this:
"I want to set savevers_max to 3, and I want savevers to ignore this".

It's like "I want vim to go to line 10 when I tell him to go to line 5".

Why would you want to set savevers_max to wrong value instead of
desired value (999) in the first place ?

Yakov


I want the old version of my file to be
saved regardless of what savevers_max is set to.  If I set savevers_max
to three and I save for the fourth time, I want the oldest, saved
version of the file to be deleted and I want my latest last-version to
be saved.

My files would go from this...

-rw-r- 1 eralston admin  226 Sep 20 11:43 test.txt
-rw-r- 1 eralston admin  102 Sep 20 11:12 test.txt.0001.clean
-rw-r- 1 eralston admin  106 Sep 20 11:14 test.txt.0002.clean
-rw-r- 1 eralston admin  132 Sep 20 11:22 test.txt.0003.clean

To this...

-rw-r- 1 eralston admin  226 Sep 20 11:43 test.txt
-rw-r- 1 eralston admin  106 Sep 20 11:14 test.txt.0002.clean
-rw-r- 1 eralston admin  132 Sep 20 11:22 test.txt.0003.clean
-rw-r- 1 eralston admin  148 Sep 20 11:34 test.txt.0004.clean

Anyway to do this?  Anybody already hacked savevers to do this?  Or have
some clever mappings to handle this?

A related question... is there a way to use a single backup directory
for all files?  I think it would need to have a way to make all file
names unique.  So that saving /dir1/a.txt wouldn't clobber over
/dir2/a.txt.

Thanks,
Bill