Nick Dokos,
Nick Dokos wrote:
> Alexander Baier <lexi.ba...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I used to set up backup-directory-alist the same way you have, but
>> changed it, when I noticed emacs putting backups of files I edited as
>> root into that directory. That was something I did not want to do.
>>
>
> OK - I haven't lived with this setup long enough to know better.
>
> On another subject:
>
>> (setq backup-directory-alist
>> '(("/home/delexi/*" . "/home/delexi/.emacs.d/backup")))
>
> the docstring says that the car of each dotted pair in the alist is a
> regexp: I presume an emacs regexp, not a shell glob pattern. So the
> setting should be
>
> (setq backup-directory-alist '(("/home/delexi/.*" . "/some/dir")))
>
> - no?
Yes, I do have (for years) the following:
--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(setq backup-directory-alist
'((".*" . "~/.emacs.d/backups/")))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
Emacs will `make-directory' it, if necessary.
Best regards,
Seb
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Sebastien Vauban
