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From: wje@lewey.UUCP (Bill Earl)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: Gosling-Emacs style backup files names in GNU Emacs?
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Date: Fri, 9-May-86 15:08:36 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  9 15:08:36 1986
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       Does anyone have diffs for a change to GNU Emacs to provide
Gosling-Emacs style names for backup files.  That is, I would like
the backup for "x.c" to be ".#x.c", not "x.c~", and the recovery
file for "x.c" to be ".##x.c", not "#x.c".  I prefer this, since
it makes the backups invisible in a regular ls listing.  I have
usually arranged to automatically remove such files when they are
old enough with a crontab entry (for those users who wish to have
that service).  

	William J. Earl
	American Information Technology, Cupertino, CA
	408-252-8713
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	William J. Earl
	American Information Technology, Cupertino, CA
	408-252-8713
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