From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs backup woes with "b~" Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 06:31:59 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <374b9878-6759-40e1-92d6-6f5df011d550@2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220708454 11789 80.91.229.12 (6 Sep 2008 13:40:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:40:54 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 06 15:41:49 2008 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 1Kby2t-0008MM-EF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:41:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38397 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kby1t-0003YJ-7I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:40:45 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 134.240.241.2 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1220707919 21736 127.0.0.1 (6 Sep 2008 13:31:59 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 13:31:59 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 2g2000hsn.googlegroups.com; posting-host=134.240.241.2; posting-account=ZyfIlgoAAADvwmSv7gUPoyt-iOc2yu_g User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008072820 Firefox/3.0.1,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:161972 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:57311 Archived-At: On Sep 6, 3:06=A0am, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > From: Joe > > Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 19:08:37 -0700 (PDT) > > > Hey I can't seem to figure out why emacs is saving files in the form > > "b~myfile.adb" in my directories. > > > I have the following in my .emacs > > > (setq > > =A0backup-by-copying t > > =A0backup-directory-alist > > =A0'(("." . "~/.emacs.d/.emacs-backups")) > > =A0delete-old-versions t > > =A0kept-new-versions 3 > > =A0kept-old-versions 2 > > =A0version-control t) > > > The "b~*" files are created right after I compile. > > Do you have any real evidence that these files are created by Emacs? No, just found out that these files are from the gnat ada compiler for debugging use. The default emacs build command for ada includes the - g switch which generates debugging info. To turn it off: (setq ada-prj-default-gnatmake-opt "") with whatever switches you want in the quotes.