An annoyed small problem with Emacs
 

heya, I have a little problem with emacs that everytime I edit some file there will be a backup of that file with the tilde '~'. so usually i need to remove them manually.

anyone knows how to avoid emacs generating such backups?

(setq make-backup-files nil)

in your .emacs file should do the trick.

Not that I recommend this. I make too many mistakes to not keep a backup file around for a while. Periodically run a command like this:

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#! /bin/sh

# Go to home directory
pushd ~

# Find backup files and deal with them (remove the -i if you are daring)

find . -name "*~" -exec rm -i {} ';'

# Back to your starting directory
popd
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thanks Mike
 

yeah i think you have given a nice idea to get rid of those instant-borning files. should run it everytime but it's much better to my work, thanks