Re: Coping with backup~ file proliferation

[Jérôme Marant]

ginak wrote:

> I use Emacs for all my text editing, and I like it a lot, but one
> thing that gets on my nerves is when my directories become littered
> with backup files (like foo~).  How can I reduce the numbers of calls
> to
>
>  rm *~
>  

This:

(setq make-backup-files nil)

disables backup files. I don't know if this is what you want.

Cheers,