prolonging the emacs discussion

[pll at lanminds.com]

In a message dated: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 10:20:35 EST
pll at lanminds.com said:

>
>In a message dated: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 09:41:30 EST
>"Price, Erik" said:
>
>>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.  

> There seems to be a paths-version-control-filename-regexp 
>variable, which I'm guessing one would set to the base name to keep 
>all your ~ files.

Hmmm, I tried it, but it doesn't seem to do what I expected.

I stand by my original statement.  If you want good revision control, 
just use RCS.  It's integrated with (X)Emacs, and works great.  And 
you can do things like create a ~/RCS file, then in any sub-dir you 
want to have a file under rev control, create a symlink from there 
back to ~/RCS (of course, this creates a concern for name collisions).
-- 

Seeya,
Paul
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