specific backup

specific backup

[harven]

Is there a way to inhibit backups (that is the making of ~ files)
for files satisfying some regular expression, or for files in a
given list ?

thanks

Re: specific backup

[Kevin Rodgers]

harven wrote:
> Is there a way to inhibit backups (that is the making of ~ files)
> for files satisfying some regular expression, or for files in a
> given list ?

RTFM (Emacs):

    The default value of the `backup-enable-predicate' variable prevents
backup files being written for files in the directories used for
temporary files, specified by `temporary-file-directory' or
`small-temporary-file-directory'.

RTFM (Emacs Lisp):

  -- Variable: backup-enable-predicate
      This variable's value is a function to be called on certain
      occasions to decide whether a file should have backup files.  The
      function receives one argument, an absolute file name to consider.
      If the function returns `nil', backups are disabled for that file.
      Otherwise, the other variables in this section say whether and how
      to make backups.

      The default value is `normal-backup-enable-predicate', which checks
      for files in `temporary-file-directory' and
      `small-temporary-file-directory'.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA