Variable: dired-kept-versions

dired-kept-versions is a customizable variable defined in files.el.gz.

Value

2

Documentation

When cleaning directory, number of versions of numbered backups to keep.

See version-control, kept-old-versions and kept-new-versions for more about keeping and deleting old versioned (a.k.a. "numbered") backup files.

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Probably introduced at or before Emacs version 17.

Source Code

;; Defined in /usr/src/emacs/lisp/files.el.gz
(defcustom dired-kept-versions 2
  "When cleaning directory, number of versions of numbered backups to keep.
See `version-control', `kept-old-versions' and `kept-new-versions' for
more about keeping and deleting old versioned (a.k.a. \"numbered\")
backup files."
  :type 'natnum
  :group 'backup
  :group 'dired)