From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Robert Thorpe" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Putting all backup (tilde) files in one directory using xemacs 21.4p6 Date: 22 Jan 2007 09:21:14 -0800 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1169486474.506326.36740@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169487697 13454 80.91.229.12 (22 Jan 2007 17:41:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:41:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 22 18:41:34 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H93Ah-0000l5-82 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 18:41:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H93Ag-000897-KA for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:41:30 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!postnews.google.com!q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 12 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.94.228.213 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1169486480 12945 127.0.0.1 (22 Jan 2007 17:21:20 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:21:20 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050716 Firefox/1.0.6,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) X-HTTP-Via: 1.0 EMF3ASPROXY03 Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=213.94.228.213; posting-account=hWoAPxMAAAAnBKSBz1ZivwUPPjEuve7bvVCHZQ8rhrluPfwcBJd92w Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:144917 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:40521 Archived-At: Kelly Jones wrote: > Using xemacs 21.4p6, how do I put all backup (tilde) files into a > single directory, instead of having them saved to the same directory > as the original file? This newsgroup is for discussion of GNU Emacs, not XEmacs. Try comp.emacs.xemacs to get people who know about XEmacs. That said, I think your problem is that the regexp you've used is just "." which matches one single letter of any kind, what you probably want is ".*" which matches a string composed of letters on any kind.