From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: upro Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: no backups, please Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 22:09:51 +0200 Organization: Slackers Home Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87u185ebxs.fsf@lux99.localhost> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1061842672 28565 80.91.224.253 (25 Aug 2003 20:17:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 20:17:52 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 25 22:17:50 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19rNmg-0001Im-00 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 2003 22:17:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19rNlX-0002e3-AM for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Aug 2003 16:16:39 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!panix!newsfeed.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!cross108.lu-visp.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: cross108.lu-visp.net (195.61.254.237) Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 1061842108 8669182 195.61.254.237 (16 [172438]) Os: Slackware 9.0.0/2.4.21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7cT2bl90V50TWRGuNSyfrKQhyOc= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:116135 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:12051 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:12051 bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård) writes: > Uwe Mayer writes: > >> How do you tell emacs not to create backup files (the foo.bar~ like >> things) for all edited files in a given subdirectory? > > ,----[ C-h v backup-enable-predicate RET ] > | backup-enable-predicate's value is > | my-backup-enable-predicate > | > | Documentation: > | Predicate that looks at a file name and decides whether to make > | backups. Called with an absolute file name as argument, it returns t > | to enable backup. > | > | Defined in `files'. > `---- Hi Johan, how do you produce that neat layout? Manually, or is there a function? -- Michael r-znvy: zvpunry.wryqra jro.qr (chg gur "@" jurer vg svgf...) ab fcnz cyrnfr