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Re: Stopping Emacs from leaving ~ files


From: Bruce Ingalls
Subject: Re: Stopping Emacs from leaving ~ files
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 13:09:12 GMT
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Sebastien Routier wrote:
Cool I can actually help with this one...

;; Enable backup files.
(setq make-backup-files t)
;; Enable versioning with default values (keep five last versions, I think!)
(setq version-control t)
;; Save all backup file in this directory.
(setq backup-directory-alist (quote ((".*" . "~/.emacs-backups/"))))

Also, take a look at ebackup.el, which is available via the ELL, or EMacro libs, both via <url: http://emacro.sf.net/ >



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