Comments on: Tilde (backup file) cleanup http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/01/26/tilde-backup-file-cleanup/ Not quite everything about Ubuntu, but close. Sat, 19 May 2012 22:14:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: lolwut http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/01/26/tilde-backup-file-cleanup/#comment-148893 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 16:57:07 +0000 http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/01/26/tilde-backup-file-cleanup/#comment-148893 Does anyone know how I can assign a backup directory for jed? Or disable ~ file generation completely? I tried to mess around a bit with my .jedrc but couldnt get it to work.

]]> By: sex sikiş http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/01/26/tilde-backup-file-cleanup/#comment-148629 Tue, 28 Sep 2010 14:52:23 +0000 http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/01/26/tilde-backup-file-cleanup/#comment-148629 So when I edit a file, the backup is created in the ~/.emacs.backups directory rather than the current directory.

]]> By: porno sikiş http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/01/26/tilde-backup-file-cleanup/#comment-148530 Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:05:22 +0000 http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/01/26/tilde-backup-file-cleanup/#comment-148530 so how can I disable tilde file creation in Vim?

]]> By: Aviv http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/01/26/tilde-backup-file-cleanup/#comment-147241 Sat, 27 Mar 2010 23:12:20 +0000 http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/01/26/tilde-backup-file-cleanup/#comment-147241 With gedit, you can just go to Edit -> Preferences and unselect “Create a backup copy of files before saving”.

]]> By: Jay http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/01/26/tilde-backup-file-cleanup/#comment-121278 Fri, 14 Dec 2007 16:04:00 +0000 http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/01/26/tilde-backup-file-cleanup/#comment-121278 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 http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/01/26/tilde-backup-file-cleanup/#comment-120973 Thu, 13 Dec 2007 15:45:31 +0000 http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/01/26/tilde-backup-file-cleanup/#comment-120973 Thanks Marc, your line works like a charm.

]]> By: Beulbek » Emacs, PHP and the tilde http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/01/26/tilde-backup-file-cleanup/#comment-84140 Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:17:25 +0000 http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/01/26/tilde-backup-file-cleanup/#comment-84140 [...] found this trick at Ubuntu Blog where a guy called Kyle added a comment about an auto-cleanup script. It’s about editing your [...]

]]> By: JB http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/01/26/tilde-backup-file-cleanup/#comment-5589 Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:22:57 +0000 http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/01/26/tilde-backup-file-cleanup/#comment-5589 :set nobackup

]]> By: henok http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/01/26/tilde-backup-file-cleanup/#comment-3328 Fri, 04 Aug 2006 21:24:34 +0000 http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/01/26/tilde-backup-file-cleanup/#comment-3328 so how can I disable tilde file creation in Vim?

]]> By: Braden http://embraceubuntu.com/2006/01/26/tilde-backup-file-cleanup/#comment-2023 Thu, 01 Jun 2006 19:09:51 +0000 http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/01/26/tilde-backup-file-cleanup/#comment-2023 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.)

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