From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Emacs backup woes with "b~" Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 19:08:37 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220668847 31334 80.91.229.12 (6 Sep 2008 02:40:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 02:40:47 +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 04:41:43 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 1Kbnk0-0005nE-80 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:41:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58286 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kbnj0-00086W-LX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 22:40:34 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 134.240.241.2 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1220666917 23102 127.0.0.1 (6 Sep 2008 02:08:37 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 02:08:37 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: t54g2000hsg.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:161958 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:57299 Archived-At: 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 backup-by-copying t backup-directory-alist '(("." . "~/.emacs.d/.emacs-backups")) delete-old-versions t kept-new-versions 3 kept-old-versions 2 version-control t) The "b~*" files are created right after I compile. Thanks, Joe