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Re: universal backup directory


From: Jay Belanger
Subject: Re: universal backup directory
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 13:27:09 -0600
User-agent: Gnus/5.090015 (Oort Gnus v0.15) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu)

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?

The `file-name-nondirectory' strips the "~/" from "~/.emacs_backups",
and so what you have is equivalent to 

(setq backup-directory-alist '(("." ".emacs_backups")))

and so .emacs_backup is put in the current directory.  You probably
want

(setq backup-directory-alist '(("." "~/.emacs_backups")))

Jay


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