From: Todd Wylie <twylie@watson.wustl.edu>
Subject: Re: universal backup directory
Date: 27 Jan 2003 14:02:42 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ilr8aywecd.fsf@linus13.wustl.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3lm16qtpu.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu
Using:
(setq backup-directory-alist '(("." . "~/.emacs_backups")))
Seems to do the trick... thanks! Interestingly, filenames seem to be keeping entire directory path and simply replacing "/" with "!".
Cheers.
Jay Belanger <belanger@truman.edu> writes:
> 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?
>
> The `file-name-nondirectory' strips the "~/" from "~/.emacs_backups",
> and so what you have is equivalent to
>
> (setq backup-directory-alist '(("." ".emacs_backups")))
>
> and so .emacs_backup is put in the current directory. You probably
> want
>
> (setq backup-directory-alist '(("." "~/.emacs_backups")))
>
> Jay
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-27 20:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2003-01-27 17:48 ` universal backup directory Kai Großjohann
2003-01-27 19:27 ` Jay Belanger
2003-01-27 20:02 ` Todd Wylie [this message]
2003-01-27 22:49 ` Kevin Rodgers
2003-01-27 21:25 ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2003-01-27 17:56 ` Phillip Lord
2003-01-27 18:02 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2003-01-27 15:43 john doe
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