Hello,

can I (I suppose I can, it's Emacs) and how can I change the way Emacs
backup files. The default is to create a filename~ in the same folder.

My idea is to copy the file to another folder. When I edit and save ~/
text/file.txt the backup is saved in ~/.emacs.d/backup/home/florian/
text/file.txt.n with n being a number incremted form 1 to x each save.

Can I configure Emacs like that?

Thanks,

Florian

Florian Lindner writes:

My idea is to copy the file to another folder. When I
edit and save ~/ text/file.txt the backup is saved in
~/.emacs.d/backup/home/florian/ text/file.txt.n with n
being a number incremted form 1 to x each save.

I have a directory called ~/bu and this in my .emacs
(thought I am not sure which versions of Emacs it works
with):

(setq version-control t) ; Numbered backups.
(setq backup-directory-alist ; Backup directory
`(("." .
,(expand-file-name "~/bu"))))

I don't know if this is exactly what you mean.... I
occasionally clean out old stuff from my ~/bu directory.

The files are named like this:

!home!thorne!hacking!litmus!mla.tmac.~3~

with bang-path kinda names and the number at the end a
version number.

Here is some documentation about those variables:

Am 28.07.2008 um 21:00 schrieb Florian Lindner:

(setq auto-save-interval 125)
;; Backups to central location
(setq make-backup-files t ; backup my files
backup-by-copying t ; don't clobber sym-links
; backup-directory-alist '(("." . (concat (user-emacs-
directory "/Sicherungen")))) ; don't litter
delete-old-versions t
kept-new-versions 6
kept-old-versions 2
version-control t ; use versioned backups
vc-make-backup-files t ; make backups for cvs projects
vc-follow-symlinks t)
(setq backup-directory-alist '(("." . "~/.emacs.d/
Sicherungen"))) ;don't litter

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Mit friedvollen Grüßen

Peter Dyballa writes:

On Jul 28, 12:00 pm, Florian Lindner wrote:

Yes. I have the code that does exactly what you want.

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Q: How to set emacs so that all backups are directed into one folder?
(such as at a directory "~/myBackups")

Use the following lisp code in init file:

On 29 Jul., 11:29, Xah gmail.com> wrote:

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