From f04b1f36fc34f2241e2e2c41b86631580e0e2ae7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Howard Abrams <howard.abrams@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2022 15:18:56 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] WHo knew that backup-directory-alist didn't accept ~
 characters?

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 ha-config.org | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ha-config.org b/ha-config.org
index c79999e..1da16bc 100644
--- a/ha-config.org
+++ b/ha-config.org
@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@ New way to display line-numbers. I set mine to =relative= so that I can easily j
 
 As [[https://philjackson.github.io//emacs/backups/2022/01/31/keeping-backups-of-every-edited-file/][Phil Jackson]] mentioned, Emacs has a lot of file backup strategy, and either change the [[help:backup-directory-alist][backup-directory-alist]] to put individual file backups elsewhere, e.g.
 
-#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp :tangle no
-  (setq backup-directory-alist `(("." . "~/.backups")))
+#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
+  (setq backup-directory-alist `(("." . ,(concat user-emacs-directory "backups"))))
 #+END_SRC
 
 Or leave them in the current directory, but create an alias to =ls= to normally not see them, e.g.