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Re: universal backup directory


From: Benjamin Riefenstahl
Subject: Re: universal backup directory
Date: 27 Jan 2003 19:02:13 +0100
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2

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?

Read the variable documentation.  


Hope this helps, benny


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