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On 29 Jun 2009, at 15:17, Francis Fish wrote:

> Finally worked this out. I use emacs and it keeps old versions of  
> the files with handy ~1~, ~2~ extensions. For some reason these were  
> being loaded instead of the main file. I have a little shell alias  
> that purges these backup files and things start working if I run it.


I've always wondered why text editors do this. If I want to keep the  
history of a file I'll use a source control, if not then don't litter  
my filesystem with "cruft".

Guess its a throwback to times before a simple `git init` created a  
repo for you right? :)

C
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