From: Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2000 17:23:40 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: backup-directory-alist, make-backup-file-name-function.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-21.0.90~4306
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=176256a10cde5deb76b61ed42b89508084aae19a;p=emacs.git

backup-directory-alist, make-backup-file-name-function.
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diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index d09f2e6adc3..cf16b62c8c2 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ images and toolkit scrollbars.  Use the --help option to list them.
 
 * Changes in Emacs 21.1
 
+** New user options `backup-directory-alist' and
+`make-backup-file-name-function' are provided to control the placement
+of backups, typically in a single directory or in an invisible
+sub-directory.
+
 ** New commands iso-iso2sgml and iso-sgml2iso convert between Latin-1
 characters and the corresponding SGML (HTML) entities.