[comp.emacs] Backups

monardo@renoir.Berkeley.EDU (Pat Monardo) (01/10/87)

>> Heavy discussion concerning backups goes here

Another fine solution to the backup problem 
is to prepend dots as backups are spawned.
That would lead to unix displaying its
data structures like tex:

ls -a
.dvi.c
..dvi.c
...dvi.c
.def.c
..def.c
dvi.c
def.c

and by setting showboxdepth to 0 or 1
ls would print

ls -1:
.dvi.c
.etc.
.def.c
.etc.
dvi.c
def.c 

ls -0
dvi.c
def.c