RE: [h-e-w] customizing dired garbage files regex

[Victor Kirk]

> (defvar dired-garbage-files-regexp
>  "\\.log$\\|\\.toc$\\|\\.dvi$\\|\\.bak$\\|\\.orig$\\|\\.rej$" 
>  "*Regular expression to match \"garbage\" files for
`dired-flag-garbage-files'.")


> How do I add my own ones to this list?  I can't seem to customize this
> behaviour short of editing dired.el, of course.

You could use a set statement to change this variable, e.g.

(set 'dired-garbage-files-regexp 
         (concat "\\.old$\\|" dired-garbage-files-regexp))

This will match *.old in addition to the existing regexps.

Vic
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