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From: steven@mcvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Re: Centralized backup and checkpoint files for Unipress Emacs?
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Date: Wed, 5-Sep-84 08:45:53 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep  5 08:45:53 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 12-Sep-84 03:20:26 EDT
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> Does anybody have a set of mods that would allow Unipress Emacs to write
> backup and checkpoint files in a directory hierarchy modeling that of the
> entire file system? [...] Thus, the backup and checkpoint files wouldn't be
> cluttering the current directory and it would also be easy to get rid of
> them in one swoop.

An easier way of preventing directories getting bunged up with backups and
checkpoints is to make the checkpoint extension start with a point, and
*prepend* it to the file name, eg to checkpoint "prog.c" as ".@prog.c".
This is easy if you look in config.h. Well, of course the files are still in
the directory, but you don't usually get to see them. Then add a cron task
to periodically remove them automatically.

Steven Pemberton, CWI, Amsterdam; steven@mcvax.