prolonging the emacs discussion

[Steven W. Orr]

On Wed, 20 Nov 2002, Price, Erik wrote:

=>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?
Don't read the emacs manual. You need to look at the elisp manual. There's 
a section called Naming Backup Files. Look at a function called 
make-backup-file-name. :-)

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