From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!utah-cs!utah-gr!thomas
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Title: Re: Ucbmail users watch out for Zimmerman"s emacs
Article-I.D.: utah-gr.598
Posted: Mon Oct 25 12:40:56 1982
Received: Wed Oct 27 04:19:58 1982
References: tpdcvax.188

I recently changed the backup file convention in Gosling's emacs here.
It used to append ".BAK" to the filename (begin semi-smart if the filename
was too long) for backup files and ".CKP" for checkpoint files.  I
decided that I didn't like seeing all those .BAK and .CKP files hanging
around all the time, so I changed it to prepend the strings ".#" and ".~"
(respectively).  Now, we don't even see them when we ls!  (Let's hear it
for . files!)  Note that you don't want to use the character % for this
sort of application, since cron turns all %s into newlines!
=Spencer