seb bacon wrote: > I've used both. > > They both work great, but I have had problems getting emacs not to save > all its various bits of guff in the same directory - anyone got any > hints? > Put that in your .emacs :;; Backups in ~/.backup (require 'backup-dir) (setq bkup-backup-directory-info '((t "~/.backups" ok-create full-path))) Works great