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john doe <m0nkeyd0g2000@yahoo.com> writes:

> ;; MAKE ALL BACKUPS TO A SINGLE DIRECTORY 
> (setq backup-directory-alist `(("." .
> ,(file-name-nondirectory "~/.emacs_backups"))))
>  
> This will make backups in the current directory to a
> dir called .emacs_backups -- however, is there a way
> to make one universal backup directory that all emacs
> files go to regardless of where they are saved?

Doesn't the above do that?  It chooses ~/.emacs_backups for all
directory names which contain at least one non-newline character,
IIUC.
-- 
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