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From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård)
Subject: Re: no backups, please
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 21:12:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yoijbrudlfet.fsf@frealaf.dd.chalmers.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: bidk9b$i9k$1@news.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de

Uwe Mayer <merkosh@hadiko.de> 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'.
`----

-- 
Johan Bockgård

  reply	other threads:[~2003-08-25 19:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-08-25 18:28 no backups, please Uwe Mayer
2003-08-25 19:12 ` Johan Bockgård [this message]
2003-08-25 20:09   ` upro
2003-08-25 20:31     ` Marcus Frings
     [not found]     ` <mailman.957.1061847366.29551.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-08-26 14:43       ` upro

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