From: "Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>" <monnier+gnu.emacs.help/news/@flint.cs.yale.edu>
Subject: Re: universal backup directory
Date: 27 Jan 2003 16:25:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5lk7gq8eub.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 847kcqo55m.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de
>> (setq backup-directory-alist
>> `(("." . ,(file-name-nondirectory "~/.emacs_backups"))))
Use
(setq backup-directory-alist
`(("" . ,(file-name-nondirectory "~/.emacs_backups"))))
if you want it to work with file names that only contain line-feeds.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-27 21:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2003-01-27 17:48 ` universal backup directory Kai Großjohann
2003-01-27 19:27 ` Jay Belanger
2003-01-27 20:02 ` Todd Wylie
2003-01-27 22:49 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-01-27 21:25 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com> [this message]
2003-01-27 17:56 ` Phillip Lord
2003-01-27 18:02 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-01-27 15:43 john doe
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