Re: Pop quiz - emacs backup stopping

From: Juhan Leemet (juhan_at_logicognosis.com)
Date: 09/23/04 

Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2004 20:05:04 -0200

On Wed, 22 Sep 2004 09:38:57 +0000, Kilian A. Foth wrote:

> Stefan Viljoen <rylan@intekom.co.za> wrote:
>> Hi guys
>
>> How can I get emacs to stop making backups of all edited files?
>
>> What goes into .emacs to do this?
>
> Two things:
>
> 1. You want gnu.emacs for this, not comp.os.linux.misc
>
> 2. Never, ever, turn off automatic backup creation. You WILL rue it
> bitterly one day, and don't expect any sympathy then. If you're
> bothered by ugly backup file names cluttering your beautiful
> directories, simply centralize them to a hidden directory via the
> backup-dir package.

Yah! They have saved my bacon a few times. Maybe consider running a
periodic find script (from cron?) that goes through your directory tree
and removes old core files and old emacs backups (easy to recognize?).
There might be some other cleanup things you could add there.

Personally, I prefer to run the find manually, and then (only once I've
seen the list of files) I run it again with "-exec rm {} \;" added.

> That said, you could (setq make-backup-files nil). But don't say I
> didn't warn you. 

-- 
Juhan Leemet
Logicognosis, Inc.

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