a question about evim

[Fred]

On Wednesday 25 January 2006 21:18, Paul Lussier wrote:
> Fred <puissante at lrc.puissante.com> writes:
> > 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.
>
> Why wouldn't you just turn it off?
>
>   ;; version tracking
>   (setq version-control "never")

Because I'd have to do that to emacs on every server I'm on, on every account 
on each server I dove in and out of. Easier just to run a batch script when 
things get too annoying. Besides, emacs is not the only program that leaves 
backup files everywhere. 

-Fred