all those *~ files
 

I was thinking, how to disable backup files? It is kinda annoying when editing lot of files and I personally see no point having them.

You could run a cronjob to delete them.

Yes, it can be deleted with one command, but since I have never used them, I thought, is it possible to disable them?

It would help to know which editor you are using. I would guess emacs from the file pattern.

Depends from which editor they come from.
Did you looked in the preferences?
In kwrite you can disable "backup on save".

I use GVIM mostly.

Aha, found such option in KWrite, but don't see in GVIM nor Emacs

For vim (and Gvim?) try adding set nobackup to ~/.vimrc

That helped. Thanks!

Those backups could be handy. Why not tell vim to save them in a special folder?

I created a .vim-backups directory and set the option in the .vimrc

For emacs, M-x customize-variable make-backup-files

For many editors, you can tell them to not make backup files when the original file is under version control.

Awesome! I didn't know about that feature. This will come in handy.

+1 for that.