Putting all backup (tilde) files in one directory using xemacs 21.4p6

Putting all backup (tilde) files in one directory using xemacs 21.4p6

[Kelly Jones]

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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Re: Putting all backup (tilde) files in one directory using xemacs 21.4p6

[Robert Thorpe]

Kelly Jones wrote:
> 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?

This newsgroup is for discussion of GNU Emacs, not XEmacs. Try
comp.emacs.xemacs to get people who know about XEmacs.

That said, I think your problem is that the regexp you've used is just
"." which matches one single letter of any kind, what you probably want
is ".*" which matches a string composed of letters on any kind.

Re: Putting all backup (tilde) files in one directory using xemacs 21.4p6

[Kevin Rodgers]

Robert Thorpe wrote:
> Kelly Jones wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> This newsgroup is for discussion of GNU Emacs, not XEmacs. Try
> comp.emacs.xemacs to get people who know about XEmacs.

Indeed.  Or upgrade to Emacs, preferably version 22.  :-)

> That said, I think your problem is that the regexp you've used is just
> "." which matches one single letter of any kind, what you probably want
> is ".*" which matches a string composed of letters on any kind.

Uh, no. "." matches any character except newline; ".*" matches zero or
more such characters.  For the purpose of matching any non-nil value of
buffer-file-name, they're effectively equivalent.

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