Comments on: Tilde (backup file) cleanup

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:04:00 +0000

Another option that’s nice on Windows is to move the tilde to the beginning of the file name. That way you won’t accidentally pick the wrong file, and your file types (and associtions in Explorer) aren’t hosed. Plus, they should stick together when a directory is sorted alphabetically.

So instead of the infuriating “file.txt~”, I’d have “~file.txt”, which still goes to emacs when double-clicked.

That way my line looks like

(defun make-backup-file-name (file)
(concat “~” (file-name-nondirectory file) ))

I just tried this for the first time a few minutes ago, so take care.

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:45:31 +0000

Thanks Marc, your line works like a charm.

By: Beulbek » Emacs, PHP and the tilde

Beulbek » Emacs, PHP and the tilde — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:17:25 +0000

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By: JB

JB — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:22:57 +0000

:set nobackup

By: henok

henok — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 21:24:34 +0000

so how can I disable tilde file creation in Vim?

By: Braden

Braden — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 19:09:51 +0000

Scary running a wildcarded rm, but it worked perfectly. Many thanks.

(Also, thanks to the commenters. Putting it in a backup directory’s a great idea.)

By: Marc

Marc — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 02:34:35 +0000

I agree with Kyle. Here’s the vim equivalent:

set backupdir=~/backups ” Don’t store backups in the current directory

By: Kyle

Kyle — Wed, 01 Feb 2006 01:56:48 +0000

Rather than deleting your backups every once and a while, why not just change your editors behavior. I include the following in my .emacs file:

;; create a backup file directory
(defun make-backup-file-name (file)
(concat “~/.emacs.backups/” (file-name-nondirectory file) “~”))

So when I edit a file, the backup is created in the ~/.emacs.backups directory rather than the current directory.

By: random guy

random guy — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 05:24:36 +0000

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By: Andy C

Andy C — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 14:48:41 +0000

Careful. Emacs backup files have saved my skin on more than one occasion. If you don’t want (or think you need) them, don’t generate them in the first place.