Subject: bug#70326: 30.0.50; Backup Files documentation does not match observed behaviour

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 21:28:47 +0300

tags 70326 notabug
thanks

> From: Markus Triska <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 20:24:53 +0200
> 
> In 19.3.2 Backup Files, we read:
> 
>    "Emacs makes a backup for a file only the first time the file is saved
>     from a buffer."
> 
> However, when I launch Emacs with:
> 
>     $ emacs -Q
> 
> and then do:
> 
>     C-x C-w backup.txt RET

"C-x C-w" is not "saving the file from a buffer".  "C-h c" says that
"C-x C-w runs the command write-file".  So I don't see anything wrong
with what the manual says.