Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> Also note that any excluding you do with `my-exclude-file-from-backup'
> is not persistent: it won't be active the next time you invoke Emacs.
> If you want a persistent excluding, you must use
> `my-exclude-from-backup' from your .emacs startup file, as shown in
> the first message I sent in this thread.

My mistake.  I kind of thought it wouldn't be persistent (and it's still
not persistent if you put it in .emacs, just repeated), but I didn't
know enough lisp to be sure.  Thanks for clarifying.  I'll see if I can
rig up a persistent version.

Matthew Flaschen