Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> writes:
> I don't find it indecipherable. We're ignoring stuff that can be
> expected to be present after a normal build and successful "make
> check" or "make installcheck". As soon as we ignore more than that,
> I'm going to insist on ignoring *~ ... do you want to open that can
> of worms?
Couldn't resist to note that $EDITOR might make it easy to divert the
backup files elsewhere (out-of-tree). For example:
(setq backup-directory-alist '((".*" . "~/.emacs.d/backups/")))
Regards,
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dim