efaq: Disabling backups
5.39 How do I disable backup files?
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You probably don’t want to do this, since backups are useful, especially
when something goes wrong.
To avoid seeing backup files (and other “uninteresting” files) in
Dired, load ‘dired-x’ by adding the following to your ‘.emacs’ file:
(add-hook 'dired-load-hook
(lambda ()
(require 'dired-x)))
With ‘dired-x’ loaded, ‘M-o’ toggles omitting in each dired buffer.
You can make omitting the default for new dired buffers by putting the
following in your ‘.emacs’:
(add-hook 'dired-mode-hook 'dired-omit-toggle)
If you’re tired of seeing backup files whenever you do an ‘ls’ at the
Unix shell, try GNU ‘ls’ with the ‘-B’ option. GNU ‘ls’ is part of the
GNU Fileutils package, available from ‘ftp.gnu.org’ and its mirrors
(
Current GNU distributions).
To disable or change the way backups are made, (emacs)Backup
Names.
Beginning with Emacs 21.1, you can control where Emacs puts backup
files by customizing the variable ‘backup-directory-alist’. This
variable’s value specifies that files whose names match specific patters
should have their backups put in certain directories. A typical use is
to add the element ‘("." . DIR)’ to force Emacs to put *all* backup
files in the directory ‘dir’.
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