Re: Emacs backup woes with "b~"

[Joe]

On Sep 6, 12:06 am, p...@informatimago.com (Pascal J. Bourguignon)
wrote:
> Joe <joesmo...@gmail.com> writes:
> > Hey I can't seem to figure out why emacs is saving files in the form
> > "b~myfile.adb" in my directories.
>
> > I have the following in my .emacs
>
> > (setq
> >  backup-by-copying t
> >  backup-directory-alist
> >  '(("." . "~/.emacs.d/.emacs-backups"))
> >  delete-old-versions t
> >  kept-new-versions 3
> >  kept-old-versions 2
> >  version-control t)
>
> > The "b~*" files are created right after I compile.
>
> Perhaps you are working on some inferior "OS" from Microsoft, or on some
> inferior file system designed by same company?
>
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Nope, Ubuntu 8.04.  Sorry forgot some other stuff.  I'm using emacs
23.0.60.1