[suntoucher]

Hi there!

Is there any way to modify the naming/numbering pattern EmEditor uses to rename a backup (or auto save) file if the given file already exists in the specified backup directory (resp. the original directory, if no other is specified)?

For instance I would prefer something Unix-like plus a 3-digit numbering like this:
~original-name.001.ext (being original-name.ext the original file name).

Thanks!

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suntoucher

[axial]

Adding my urgent vote for this capability.

I hadn’t noticed that custom backup naming was not possible when I did the evaluation, and now I’m finding it almost impossible to use EmEditor in my workflow where I often have other scripts that process files using exclusions to ignore specific backup naming patterns.

My preference would be two-fold:

a) have the choice of whether to use multiple numbered backups or just a single backup

b) to have the choice of naming conventions such as:

file.bak
file.bak.ext
file.ext.bak
file.ext in folder xxyy

[cecilyen]

I also wish to see this feature to be implemented in EmEditor.

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