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: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 21:26:55 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: <87ljy5or3o.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> 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 1220676120 14739 80.91.229.12 (6 Sep 2008 04:42:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 04:42:00 +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 06:42:55 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 1KbpdO-0000E0-To for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:42:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40528 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KbpcP-000438-Em for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:41:53 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!8g2000hse.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 32 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 134.240.241.2 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1220675216 16938 127.0.0.1 (6 Sep 2008 04:26:56 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 04:26:56 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: 8g2000hse.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:161963 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:57306 Archived-At: On Sep 6, 12:06=A0am, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) wrote: > Joe writes: > > 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. > > Perhaps you are working on some inferior "OS" from Microsoft, or on some > inferior file system designed by same company? > > -- > __Pascal Bourguignon__ =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0http://www.= informatimago.com/ > > THIS IS A 100% MATTER PRODUCT: In the unlikely event that this > merchandise should contact antimatter in any form, a catastrophic > explosion will result. Nope, Ubuntu 8.04. Sorry forgot some other stuff. I'm using emacs 23.0.60.1