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Potty-train emacs to stop littering the fs tree with ~ files
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backup_dir.el
;; Do civilized backup names. Added by dbrady 2003-03-07, taken from
;; http://emacswiki.wikiwikiweb.de/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?BackupDirectory
;;
;; Don't forget to mkdir ~/saves
(setq
backup-by-copying t ; don't clobber symlinks
backup-directory-alist
'(("." . "~/saves")) ; don't litter my fs tree
delete-old-versions t
kept-new-versions 6
kept-old-versions 2
version-control t) ; use versioned backups
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