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From: ramsey@PURDUE.EDU (Ed Ramsey)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: concerning Gnu Emacs backup files
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Date: Sun, 4-Jan-87 09:50:05 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan  4 09:50:05 1987
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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