esc

Externally Scriptable Editor

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esc-backup.7 (694B)

      1 .TH esc-backup 7
      2 
      3 .SH NAME
      4 esc-backup - Esc editor revision history management system
      5 
      6 .SH DESCRIPTION
      7 
      8 .PP
      9 .B esc(1) 
     10 features an automatic revision history. 
     11 .B esc(1)
     12 automatically takes temporary snapshots of the file unless explicitily
     13 disabled by providing the  
     14 .B disable-snapshots-flag
     15 flag to the program. If the partition where the file resides is a CoW
     16 partition, such as
     17 .B btrfs(5)
     18 , then a reflink is created instead of a regular file copy. 
     19 
     20 .PP
     21 Snapshots are taken every time the file is saved, and are stored in the
     22 directory 
     23 .B XDG_DATA_HOME/esc/history 
     24 with the absolute location. Up to ten copies are kept for
     25 each file. 
     26 
     27 .SH SEE ALSO
     28 .B btrfs(5)
     29 .B cp(1)
     30 .B esc-ipc(5)