From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Putting all backup (tilde) files in one directory using xemacs 21.4p6 Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 22:42:19 -0700 Message-ID: References: <1169486474.506326.36740@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1169530956 23874 80.91.229.12 (23 Jan 2007 05:42:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 05:42:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jan 23 06:42:34 2007 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 1H9EQU-0007FP-1f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:42:34 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H9EQT-0008Oc-Ju for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:42:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H9EQE-0008NT-BJ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:42:18 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1H9EQD-0008Mk-N9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:42:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1H9EQD-0008MT-K3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:42:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1H9EQD-0002Ln-1y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:42:17 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1H9EQB-0000D9-5V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:42:15 +0100 Original-Received: from c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net ([24.9.156.178]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:42:15 +0100 Original-Received: from kevin.d.rodgers by c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:42:15 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-9-156-178.hsd1.co.comcast.net User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Macintosh/20061207) In-Reply-To: <1169486474.506326.36740@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> 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:40548 Archived-At: Robert Thorpe wrote: > Kelly Jones wrote: >> Using xemacs 21.4p6, how do I put all backup (tilde) files into a >> single directory, instead of having them saved to the same directory >> as the original file? > > This newsgroup is for discussion of GNU Emacs, not XEmacs. Try > comp.emacs.xemacs to get people who know about XEmacs. Indeed. Or upgrade to Emacs, preferably version 22. :-) > That said, I think your problem is that the regexp you've used is just > "." which matches one single letter of any kind, what you probably want > is ".*" which matches a string composed of letters on any kind. Uh, no. "." matches any character except newline; ".*" matches zero or more such characters. For the purpose of matching any non-nil value of buffer-file-name, they're effectively equivalent. -- Kevin Rodgers Denver, Colorado, USA