From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (=?iso-8859-1?q?Johan_Bockg=E5rd?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: no backups, please Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 21:12:58 +0200 Organization: Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1061842721 28665 80.91.224.253 (25 Aug 2003 20:18:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 20:18:41 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 25 22:18:39 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19rNnT-0001Lu-00 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 2003 22:18:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19rNNV-0001PA-Sn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Aug 2003 15:51:49 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!nntp.cs.ubc.ca!freenix!usenet-fr.net!mephistopheles.news.clara.net!news.clara.net!skynet.be!skynet.be!news.algonet.se!'newsfeed1.telenordia.se'!algonet!newsfeed.sunet.se!news01.sunet.se!dd.chalmers.se!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: frealaf.dd.chalmers.se Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.2 (usg-unix-v) Cancel-Lock: sha1:sJvSSYZ2qS7s1frA743PwlYpHTo= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:116133 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:12052 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:12052 Uwe Mayer 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