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This SO answer about .emacs file contains:

;; keep backup files neatly out of the way in .~/
(setq backup-directory-alist '(("." . ".~")))

which triggered an idea that it would be handy if Emacs would create backup files using the OpenVMS Files-11 version naming. For example, x.txt;3 or x.txt.3 for the third version of x.txt

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    Is that really that much better than just using a VCS? – pmr Jun 20 '12 at 20:55
  • @pmr 19 years of Files-11 versioning made me wonder how people on Windows and Unix lived without it. I still find the lack irritating -- that the file systems do not handle versions automagicly. – CW Holeman II Jun 20 '12 at 21:36

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Check out this article: http://www.glindra.org/doc/version_number.html. The short story is to add:

(setq version-control t)

in your .emacs file.

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