From: Jason Earl <jearl@wegointer.net>
Subject: Re: Stopping Emacs from leaving ~ files
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 20:53:23 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87el3vckf0.fsf@smtp.wegointer.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.5006.1050933036.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@kemisten.nu> writes:
> This is hopefully a simple question, but I've been unable to
> discover how to do it.
>
> Did you read the Emacs manual?
>
> How does one configure emacs so it will stop leaving ~ files
> around?
>
>>From (emacs)Backup:
>
> For most files, the variable `make-backup-files' determines
> whether to make backup files. On most operating systems, its
> default value is `t', so that Emacs does write backup files.
Another possible solution is to check out the variable
backup-directory-alist (C-h v backup-directory-alist). This allows
you to save your "backup" files in a central place.
Jason
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-22 2:53 UTC|newest]
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2003-04-21 13:16 Stopping Emacs from leaving ~ files Mark R.
2003-04-21 13:50 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
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2003-04-21 14:28 ` Mark R.
2003-04-22 2:53 ` Jason Earl [this message]
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2003-04-21 14:12 Sebastien Routier
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2003-04-22 13:09 ` Bruce Ingalls
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