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) -- dave http://groups.yahoo.com/group/unix-critics