From: Daniel Carrera <dcarrera@...>
Date: 2002-12-07T14:15:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Thank God for backups

>   alias rm='rm -i'

I have no patience for 'rm -i'.  Indeed, that was the default and I
unaliased it.
A better solution is to move to zsh.  You can have zsh ask you if you are
sure only when you type 'rm *'.  I think I'll do that at some poine.

>   vim: set backupdir=/tmp      [I presume the *~ files come from vim?]

They come from Emacs.  Do you know how to do the equivalent in Emacs?

Daniel.