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List:       jedit-users
Subject:    Re: [ jEdit-users ] Unexpected Backup Behavior
From:       Slava Pestov <slava () jedit ! org>
Date:       2002-01-30 23:25:06
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On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 05:09, Joe Polanik wrote:
> I'm observing some unexpected behavior with both jEdit 3.2.2 and 4.0p4 when 
> saving files.
> 
> Under global options I've set maximum backups to 1, but I expected jEdit to 
> update that backup each time I save changes. It doesn't.

RTFM. You can change this.

> Note: I've also noticed the following with jEdit 4.0p4. I don't recall 
> whether this also occurs with 3.2.2: I've set the default char encoding to 
> ISO-8859-1. Although I was editing test.txt using this default, 
> test.txt.bak is opened with a char encoding of Cp1252. All defined file 
> types seem to use the default correctly, so I'd want .bak files to use the 
> char encoding of the original or, failing that, the default.

jEdit remembers the encoding for the last 50 or so recent files. pre4
also tries to auto-detect Unicode files. Apart from that, there is no
way for jEdit to guess a file's encoding.
-- 
Slava Pestov


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