prolonging the emacs discussion

[Price, Erik]

Once upon a time I saw somewhere a tip on setting up emacs so that those 
annoying backup files all go into one directory, or something like that.  
However, I pored over "Learning GNU Emacs" at the bookstore and scoured 
the built-in tutorial and didn't see how to set the default directory 
for these files.

I could write a script that goes through my home directory and cleans 
them up, I suppose, but certainly emacs has the ability to customize 
this through some setting?

Anybody know how to do this?


Thanks,

Erik