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From: shirono@grasp.cis.upenn.edu (Roberto Shironoshita)
Newsgroups: comp.emacs
Subject: Re: A beginner needs some help.
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Date: 6 Mar 88 21:09:31 GMT
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Summary: backup files are not a feature of VIP

In article <284@ho7cad.ATT.COM> msb@ho5cad.ATT.COM writes:
>In article <428@zehntel.UUCP> larryg@zinfandel.zehntel.com (Larry Gillespie) writes:
>> [ Larry asking how to prevent GNU Emacs to make backups.   ]
>> [ The vip-mode stuff he mentions is irrelevant (I think ;-)]
>
>Look in info/vip for some documentation.  Since I don't use vip-mode,
>I haven't looked at it a lot.  What you need may be in there.  

Backup files are a feature of GNU Emacs, not of the different
modes/emulations.  In $HOME/.emacs, you can put:

	(setq make-backup-files nil)

to prevent GNU Emacs from making backups.
                                  Roberto Shironoshita
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