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Re: universal backup directory
From: |
Phillip Lord |
Subject: |
Re: universal backup directory |
Date: |
27 Jan 2003 17:56:56 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.93 |
>>>>> "john" == john doe <m0nkeyd0g2000@yahoo.com> writes:
john> I have the following entry in my dotfile:
john> ;; MAKE ALL BACKUPS TO A SINGLE DIRECTORY (setq
john> ;; backup-directory-alist
john> `(("." . ,(file-name-nondirectory "~/.emacs_backups"))))
john> This will make backups in the current directory to a dir
john> called .emacs_backups -- however, is there a way to make one
john> universal backup directory that all emacs files go to
john> regardless of where they are saved?
The "backup-dir" package does exactly what you want. I've used it for
a while, and found it to do what I want. google will provide, I'm
sure.
Phil