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Re: universal backup directory
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Kai Großjohann |
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Re: universal backup directory |
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Date: |
Mon, 27 Jan 2003 18:48:21 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.090015 (Oort Gnus v0.15) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) |
john doe <m0nkeyd0g2000@yahoo.com> writes:
> ;; MAKE ALL BACKUPS TO A SINGLE DIRECTORY
> (setq backup-directory-alist `(("." .
> ,(file-name-nondirectory "~/.emacs_backups"))))
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> 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?
Doesn't the above do that? It chooses ~/.emacs_backups for all
directory names which contain at least one non-newline character,
IIUC.
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