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

[Sivaram Neelakantan]

>>>>> "Victor" == Victor Kirk <address@hidden> writes:

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

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

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

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

Thanks, that works.

regards,
Sivaram

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