a question about evim

[Jason Stephenson]

Fred wrote:
> ...
> I use emacs extensively, and get annoyed with the backup files too. So I 
> wrote a bash script I run peroidically to copy *all* the backup files in the 
> directory tree to /tmp.

All you need to get rid of the backup files in emacs is the following 
line in your .emacs file:

(setq make-backup-files nil)

You can also do this interactively, but the keystrokes are rather arcane. ;)