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Re: Stopping Emacs from leaving ~ files
From: |
Mark R. |
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Re: Stopping Emacs from leaving ~ files |
Date: |
Mon, 21 Apr 2003 10:28:27 -0400 |
Thank you that did the trick.
I had used the wrong term to search for "~" and it passed over that section.
-Mark
"Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@kemisten.nu> wrote in message
news:mailman.5006.1050933036.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org...
> This is hopefully a simple question, but I've been unable to discover
how to
> do it.
>
> Did you read the Emacs manual?
>
> How does one configure emacs so it will stop leaving ~ files around?
>
> >From (emacs)Backup:
>
> For most files, the variable `make-backup-files' determines whether
> to make backup files. On most operating systems, its default value is
> `t', so that Emacs does write backup files.
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