GNU bug report logs - #22625
24.5; Please add index entry for `~ filename suffix' to manual for node `Backup Names'

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 23:05:02 UTC

Severity: wishlist

Found in version 24.5

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #16 received at 22625 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 22625 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#22625: 24.5;
 Please add index entry for `~ filename suffix' to manual for node
 `Backup Names'
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 17:37:36 +0200

> From: Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2016 10:24:56 -0500
> 
> I am not sure I understood the request.
> 
> On emacs built from emacs-25 branch (could not verify the same on 24.5), by doing,
> 
> C-h i g (emacs) Backup Names
> 
> I get a very good explanation of how the backup files are named.

Drew didn't say the text was insufficient, he asked for index
entries.  IOW, how do you find quickly what a tilde at the end of a
file name means?
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