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I tried this, but it doesn't seem to do anything.  I've tried configuring
XEmacs through it's menus.  I can see the .emacs file changing.  I am sure
that XEmacs is reading this file because I've already configured other
things in it.

Perhaps someone can look at my .ecmacs file and tell see if there's
something wrong there.

Thanks,
Daniel.

> For emacs, you can re-define the make-backup-file-name.  Below is a
> good version which creates backup files in ~/.backups, replacing "/"
> with "|".  If you just want to change the suffix, something like...
>
> (defun make-backup-file-name (file-name)
>   (concat file-name ".bak"))
>
> Would do the trick.  If you want the more complicated version, read
> on:
>
> (defun make-backup-file-name (file-name)
>   "Create the non-numeric backup file name for `file-name`."
>   (if (file-exists-p "~/.backups")
>       (concat (expand-file-name "~/.backups/")
>             (replace-in-string "/" "|" file-name))
>     (concat file-name "~")))
>
> That works for XEmacs which has the handy replace-in-string function.
>
> You'll have to do use dired-replace-in-string on GNU Emacs:
>
> (defun make-backup-file-name (file-name)
>   "Create the non-numeric backup file name for `file-name`."
>   (require `dired)
>   (if (file-exists-p "~/.backups")
>       (concat (expand-file-name "~/.backups/")
>             (dired-replace-in-string "/" "|" file-name))
>     (concat file-name "~")))
>
> --
> Josh Huber
>
>

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