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From: "Mark R." <mc_reis@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Stopping Emacs from leaving ~ files
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 10:28:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b80v6b$brc$1@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.5006.1050933036.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

Thank you that did the trick.

I had used the wrong term to search for "~" and it passed over that section.

-Mark

"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@kemisten.nu> wrote in message
news:mailman.5006.1050933036.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org...
>    This is hopefully a simple question, but I've been unable to discover
how to
>    do it.
>
> Did you read the Emacs manual?
>
>    How does one configure emacs so it will stop leaving ~ files around?
>
> >From (emacs)Backup:
>
>    For most files, the variable `make-backup-files' determines whether
> to make backup files.  On most operating systems, its default value is
> `t', so that Emacs does write backup files.
>
>
>
>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-04-21 14:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-21 13:16 Stopping Emacs from leaving ~ files Mark R.
2003-04-21 13:50 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
     [not found] ` <mailman.5006.1050933036.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-04-21 14:28   ` Mark R. [this message]
2003-04-22  2:53   ` Jason Earl
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-04-21 14:12 Sebastien Routier
     [not found] <mailman.5007.1050934390.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-04-22 13:09 ` Bruce Ingalls

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