getting rid of ~ backup files (archive/nnfolder)

getting rid of ~ backup files (archive/nnfolder)

[jari.aalto]

        Hi,

        Were there an option in recent ding that prevented
        creating the archive and nnfolder backup files, they are
        really annoying. I prefer backups everywhere else but
        not for mailbox files. (I have cron gzip for them)

        If not, what's the code to prevent them?

        jari

Re: getting rid of ~ backup files (archive/nnfolder)

[Scott Byer]

jari aalto writes:

jari>         Hi,

jari>         Were there an option in recent ding that prevented creating
jari> the archive and nnfolder backup files, they are really annoying. I
jari> prefer backups everywhere else but not for mailbox files. (I have cron
jari> gzip for them)

jari>         If not, what's the code to prevent them?

jari>         jari

Here's what I use:

(defvar backup-skip 
  "\\(^/Dev/\\)\\|\\(^/tmp/\\)\\|/Mailboxes/\\|/News/\\|newsrc"
  "A regular expression to match against each file name.  If the file name
being tested for backupability matches, don't back it up.")

(defun backup-prevent-check (file)
  (not (string-match backup-skip file)))

(setq backup-enable-predicate 'backup-prevent-check)


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