Emacs loves to create billions of little ugly-twin backup files all over your hard disk that look like ‘myfile~’ and ‘myfile.txt~’. Here are some better alternatives: – add the following to your .emacs (this is the best solution)(setq make-backup-files t)(setq version-control t)(setq backup-directory-alist     (quote ((“.*” . “~/backup/emacs_autosave/”)))); otherwise it keeps asking(setq kept-new-versions 30)(setq delete-old-versions […]