On Mon, 13 Jul 1998, 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) M^x set-variable make-backup-files nil I have not tried it though so I am not sure. BTW do you know how `info` works ;-)? Andrea[s] Arcangeli