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ginak wrote:

>I use Emacs for all my text editing, and I like it a lot, but one
>thing that gets on my nerves is when my directories become littered
>with backup files (like foo~).  How can I reduce the numbers of calls
>to
>
>  rm *~
>  
>

This:

(setq make-backup-files nil)

disables backup files. I don't know if this is what you want.

Cheers,