Re: Backup filename

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Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > From: "." <a.b@c.de>
> > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> > Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 19:22:20 GMT
> >
> > Could someone tell me how to move my backups to ~/.backups and have them 
> > named something like "|home|me|.emacs.1" and then "|home|me|.emacs.2", 
> > "|home|me|.emacs.3" and so on. I can't get make-backup-file-name to work 
> > on 21.?
>
>
> Why did you go directly to make-backup-file-name?  There's a simpler
> facility; see the doc string of backup-directory-alist.  Any reasons
> why it won't do what you want?
1) Somebody told me it was the way to go.
2) Will do!
3) No idea, will check and get back. For now, ebackup.el is ok by me.

Thanks Eli!