no backups, please

no backups, please

[Uwe Mayer]

How do you tell emacs not to create backup files (the foo.bar~ like things)
for all edited files in a given subdirectory?

Thanks
Uwe
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Re: no backups, please

[Johan Bockgård]

Uwe Mayer <merkosh@hadiko.de> writes:

> How do you tell emacs not to create backup files (the foo.bar~ like
> things) for all edited files in a given subdirectory?

,----[ C-h v backup-enable-predicate RET ]
| backup-enable-predicate's value is 
| my-backup-enable-predicate
| 
| Documentation:
| Predicate that looks at a file name and decides whether to make
| backups. Called with an absolute file name as argument, it returns t
| to enable backup.
| 
| Defined in `files'.
`----

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Johan Bockgård

Re: no backups, please

[upro]

bojohan+news@dd.chalmers.se (Johan Bockgård) writes:

> Uwe Mayer <merkosh@hadiko.de> writes:
>
>> How do you tell emacs not to create backup files (the foo.bar~ like
>> things) for all edited files in a given subdirectory?
>
> ,----[ C-h v backup-enable-predicate RET ]
> | backup-enable-predicate's value is 
> | my-backup-enable-predicate
> | 
> | Documentation:
> | Predicate that looks at a file name and decides whether to make
> | backups. Called with an absolute file name as argument, it returns t
> | to enable backup.
> | 
> | Defined in `files'.
> `----

Hi Johan,

how do you produce that neat layout? Manually, or is there a function?

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Re: no backups, please

[Marcus Frings]

* upro <upro@gmx.net> wrote:

[boxquote]
> how do you produce that neat layout? Manually, or is there a function?

Get boxquote.el and you will be able to produce these nice boxes...

Regards,
Marcus
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Re: no backups, please

[upro]

Marcus Frings <iam-est-hora-surgere@despammed.com> writes:

> * upro <upro@gmx.net> wrote:
>
> [boxquote]
>> how do you produce that neat layout? Manually, or is there a function?
>
> Get boxquote.el and you will be able to produce these nice boxes...
>
> Regards,
> Marcus

Magnas gratias tibi ago!

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