Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!columbia!rutgers!mit-eddie!PURDUE.EDU!ramsey From: ramsey@PURDUE.EDU (Ed Ramsey) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: concerning Gnu Emacs backup files Message-ID: <8701041450.AA08983@arthur.cs.purdue.edu> Date: Sun, 4-Jan-87 09:50:05 EST Article-I.D.: arthur.8701041450.AA08983 Posted: Sun Jan 4 09:50:05 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 4-Jan-87 21:47:04 EST Sender: nessus@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU Lines: 20 I would like to create a directory /usr/ramsey/.gnubackup and have gnu emacs store all tilde and #*# files there. It is becomming very tiresome to have to delete all of the tilde and pound files everytime I leave a source directory. In an environment I once worked in, you could specify a backup directory that the editor would use to store all backups. This would be a nice idea for gnu emacs. I realize that If you edit several different Makefiles that only the last one would be backed up, but generally that is all the longevity that is of interest (at least for me), especially if a shop uses RCS or SCCS and isn't trying to use the backups as a revision information tool. I read the manual and saw no easy hooks for doing this. Is this do-able in a reasonably straightforward fashion? Has someone solved this problem in a different way? (perhaps not a problem, but an irritation). -Ed