From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs backup woes with "b~"
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 10:06:00 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <uzlmliwiv.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c01f01e5-57bc-4cae-b4c5-c432a5463c96@t54g2000hsg.googlegroups.com>
> From: Joe <joesmoe10@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 19:08:37 -0700 (PDT)
>
> 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.
Do you have any real evidence that these files are created by Emacs?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-06 7:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-06 2:08 Emacs backup woes with "b~" Joe
2008-09-06 4:06 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-09-06 4:26 ` Joe
2008-09-06 10:59 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2008-09-06 7:06 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2008-09-06 13:12 ` Allan Gottlieb
[not found] ` <mailman.18583.1220697061.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-06 13:31 ` Joe
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