prolonging the emacs discussion

[Jerry Feldman]

I can only give you a couple of clues. You would set some variables up in 
your ~/.emacs file. Some of the relevant variables are: 
make-backup-files : this actually tells emacs how to make backups
backup-dir should give you the backup directory, but I am not 100% sure. 


On 20 Nov 2002 at 9:41, 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?
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Erik
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