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Re: universal backup directory

From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: universal backup directory
Date: 27 Jan 2003 16:25:48 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 
>> (setq backup-directory-alist
>>       `(("." . ,(file-name-nondirectory "~/.emacs_backups"))))

Use 

 (setq backup-directory-alist
       `(("" . ,(file-name-nondirectory "~/.emacs_backups"))))

if you want it to work with file names that only contain line-feeds.


        Stefan
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