From: <rma...@ie...> - 2000-04-24 00:18:04
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** Reply to message from "Richard S. Hall" <he...@ri...> on Sun, 23 Apr 2000 08:23:03 -0600 > I finally remembered a feature that I wanted. > > Currently I don't use the back-up option in jEdit because it doesn't > behave how I would like it to. I don't really like having all of these > ".bak" or ".java~" files littered all over my filesystem. Of course, I > could always specify a back up directory for jEdit to use, but this > isn't exactly what I want either; this is a flat file space with > potential name clashes. I agree, this is why I don't use the backup feature also. > What I would like is to be able to specify a back up "root" directory. > When a back up is saved, jEdit would automatically created a parallel > directory structure in my back "root" directory. For example, let's say > I have my back up root directory set to "\backup" and I am editing > "\projects\myproject\Main.java". When jEdit saves a back up of the > edited file, it would save it to > "\backup\projects\myprojects\Main.java". > > The beauty of this approach is that all of my back ups are in one > convenient directory, the directory is completely familiar to me since > it mirrors my directory structure, and it avoids naming clashes for my > various projects. For Windows we would probably have to add a drive > designator, such as "\backup\c\projects\myproject\Main.java" if the > project was on the C drive for example. This is a great idea! Bob -- Please note new email addr and change any references of rma...@ne... to rma...@ie... |