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Re: Is it possible to prevent emacs auto saving the filename~?


From: Teemu Likonen
Subject: Re: Is it possible to prevent emacs auto saving the filename~?
Date: Sun, 03 May 2009 17:26:34 GMT
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux)

明覺 wrote:

> I know that emacs auto save a file named filename~ when I modified the
> file filename, but I do not like the autosaved copy, could i stop this
> function? thanks

The variable that you are probably looking for is make-backup-files.
Read also the related section in the Emacs reference manual:

    C-h r m Backup RET


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