Daniel Carrera wrote:
>>  [I presume the *~ files come from vim?]
> They come from Emacs.  Do you know how to do the equivalent in Emacs?

yes, emacs is part of the blame (though i daily use 'joe'). if only 
emacs had used foo.bak... (and i'm also wondering if it had used 'foo*' :-p)

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dave

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