From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: pjb@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs backup woes with "b~" Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:06:35 +0200 Organization: Informatimago Message-ID: <87ljy5or3o.fsf@hubble.informatimago.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220676075 14652 80.91.229.12 (6 Sep 2008 04:41:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 6 Sep 2008 04:41:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 06 06:42:09 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Kbpcd-0008Vb-P0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 06:42:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40111 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Kbpbe-0003gJ-4n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:41:06 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!proxad.net!feeder1-2.proxad.net!cleanfeed3-b.proxad.net!nnrp16-2.free.fr!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwAQMAAABtzGvEAAAABlBMVEUAAAD///+l2Z/dAAAA oElEQVR4nK3OsRHCMAwF0O8YQufUNIQRGIAja9CxSA55AxZgFO4coMgYrEDDQZWPIlNAjwq9 033pbOBPtbXuB6PKNBn5gZkhGa86Z4x2wE67O+06WxGD/HCOGR0deY3f9Ijwwt7rNGNf6Oac l/GuZTF1wFGKiYYHKSFAkjIo1b6sCYS1sVmFhhhahKQssRjRT90ITWUk6vvK3RsPGs+M1RuR mV+hO/VvFAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== X-Accept-Language: fr, es, en X-Disabled: X-No-Archive: no User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Ju9Tis78Ry8ixVXWFe31EfmAFts= Original-Lines: 28 Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 06 Sep 2008 06:06:34 MEST Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88.182.134.169 Original-X-Trace: 1220673994 news-4.free.fr 5096 88.182.134.169:51497 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@proxad.net Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:161960 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:57305 Archived-At: Joe writes: > Hey I can't seem to figure out why emacs is saving files in the form > "b~myfile.adb" in my directories. > > I have the following in my .emacs > > (setq > backup-by-copying t > backup-directory-alist > '(("." . "~/.emacs.d/.emacs-backups")) > delete-old-versions t > kept-new-versions 3 > kept-old-versions 2 > version-control t) > > The "b~*" files are created right after I compile. Perhaps you are working on some inferior "OS" from Microsoft, or on some inferior file system designed by same company? -- __Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/ THIS IS A 100% MATTER PRODUCT: In the unlikely event that this merchandise should contact antimatter in any form, a catastrophic explosion will result.