Re: Emacs backup woes with "b~"

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Joe <joesmoe10@gmail.com> writes:

> Hey I can't seem to figure out why emacs is saving files in the form
> "b~myfile.adb" in my directories.
>
> I have the following in my .emacs
>
> (setq
>  backup-by-copying t
>  backup-directory-alist
>  '(("." . "~/.emacs.d/.emacs-backups"))
>  delete-old-versions t
>  kept-new-versions 3
>  kept-old-versions 2
>  version-control t)
>
> The "b~*" files are created right after I compile.

Perhaps you are working on some inferior "OS" from Microsoft, or on some
inferior file system designed by same company?


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