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From: mwnn <mwnnlin@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Unable to quit emacs after enabling Clocking
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2010 17:46:25 +0530
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To: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: Eric S Fraga <ucecesf@ucl.ac.uk>, "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>, Noorul Islam <noorul@noorul.com>

Changed the line to

(setq backup-directory-alist '((".*" . "./.emacs.d/")))

Regards,
mwnn

On 10/24/2010 03:46 PM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Oct 2010 15:15:55 +0530, mwnn <mwnnlin@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I fixed the issue by setting the value of backup-directory-alist as
>> shown below:
>>
>> (setq backup-directory-alist '((".~" . "./.emacs.d/")))
>
> I'm not sure I understand this correctly but shouldn't the first entry
> be a regex file pattern? This would only appear to match files with
> a single character followed by ~?
>
> According to the documentation for that variable, if you want all
> files going to the specified directory (which in your case will be
> relative to the original file's location), maybe you want ".*" as the
> file regex?
>
> eric