You should look into version control, like Git. It makes this process easy and integrates with Emacs with the Magit package.
Nathan DeGruchy nat...@degruchy.org > On Dec 21, 2013, at 9:23 AM, Sharon Kimble <boudic...@talktalk.net> 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. > -- > A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk > efever = http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ > efever = http://sharon04.livejournal.com/ > my git repo = https://bitbucket.org/boudiccas/dots > Debian testing, Fluxbox 1.3.5, LibreOffice 4.1.3.2 > Registered Linux user 561944
