Johann Spies <johann.sp...@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello Alexander,
>
> Thanks for your attention.
>>
>> that is strange. I cannot remember doing something else besides putting
>> the mentioned code into my init file. I can only think of these
>> "trivial" reason why this does not work for you:
>>
>> - Did you evaluate the code or restarted your emacs?
>
> Yes, I killed emacs (daemon) and restarted it. How do you evaluate
> (reload) ~/.emacs from emacs running?
>
>> - Are the files you are editing somewhere under /home/js/?
>
> Yes: in /home/js/DropBox/orgmode and then /home/js/.emacs
>
>> - Did you really edit and save a file since adding the code to your init
>> file?
> Yes
>
>> - In case you are editing files under version control: Did you turn on
>> vc-make-backup-files?
>
> None of those files are under version control.
>
> I have done this on two computers - at work (the earlier message) and home.
>
The docstring for backup-directory-alist says
,----
| For the common case of all backups going into one directory, the alist
| should contain a single element pairing "." with the appropriate
| directory name.
`----
FWIW, I tried
(setq backup-directory-alist '(("." . "/home/nick/.emacs.d/backup-dir")))
and it seems to work. I don't remember if I had to create the backup-dir
beforehand.
Nick
