Wei Weng wrote: > Ok I hope this is not TOO off the topic :-) 'Cause a number of people here > use emacs as their primary living tool, can anyone of those tell me how > I can disable the backup file emacs saves from time to time? (the > something~ file) There is a library for XEmacs (backup-dir.el) which allows you to have the backup files saved in a specific directory. I don't know whether it works with Emacs, though. -- Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>