Re: Stopping Emacs from leaving ~ files

[Mark R.]

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.
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> Did you read the Emacs manual?
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>    How does one configure emacs so it will stop leaving ~ files around?
>
> >From (emacs)Backup:
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>    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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