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Re: universal backup directory
From: |
Todd Wylie |
Subject: |
Re: universal backup directory |
Date: |
27 Jan 2003 14:02:42 -0600 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 |
Using:
(setq backup-directory-alist '(("." . "~/.emacs_backups")))
Seems to do the trick... thanks! Interestingly, filenames seem to be keeping
entire directory path and simply replacing "/" with "!".
Cheers.
Jay Belanger <belanger@truman.edu> writes:
> john doe <m0nkeyd0g2000@yahoo.com> writes:
>
> > ;; MAKE ALL BACKUPS TO A SINGLE DIRECTORY
> > (setq backup-directory-alist `(("." .
> > ,(file-name-nondirectory "~/.emacs_backups"))))
> >
> > This will make backups in the current directory to a
> > dir called .emacs_backups -- however, is there a way
> > to make one universal backup directory that all emacs
> > files go to regardless of where they are saved?
>
> The `file-name-nondirectory' strips the "~/" from "~/.emacs_backups",
> and so what you have is equivalent to
>
> (setq backup-directory-alist '(("." ".emacs_backups")))
>
> and so .emacs_backup is put in the current directory. You probably
> want
>
> (setq backup-directory-alist '(("." "~/.emacs_backups")))
>
> Jay