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From: "Kelly Jones" <kelly.terry.jones@gmail.com>
Subject: Putting all backup (tilde) files in one directory using xemacs 21.4p6
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 18:00:21 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <26face530701211700w7a66c62ei4a92f961b9647dc9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Using xemacs 21.4p6, how do I put all backup (tilde) files into a
single directory, instead of having them saved to the same directory
as the original file?

I tried several variations of:

(require 'saveconf)
(require 'uniquify)
(require 'auto-save)
(setq backup-directory-alist '(("." . "/home/user/emacs-backups")))

to no avail (I replaced 'user' with my username and confirmed that
emacs-backups existed and was writable by me).

I then wiped out all the tilde files, restarted xemacs, ran the LISP
code above, but the tilde files still show up in the same directory as
the original.

Doing "describe-variable" for "backup-directory-alist" is unhelpful,
so I wonder if I need to "require" something else to make this work?

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             reply	other threads:[~2007-01-22  1:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-22  1:00 Kelly Jones [this message]
     [not found] <mailman.3400.1169427633.2155.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-01-22 17:21 ` Putting all backup (tilde) files in one directory using xemacs 21.4p6 Robert Thorpe
2007-01-23  5:42   ` Kevin Rodgers

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