Jay Ford wrote: > > > > Does someone know which option is regarded to avoid emacs from > > > imediately creating a backup file by opening a new or any other file? > > Put the following in ~/.emacs: > > (setq make-backup-files nil) ; Never create backup files > > It works for me. Just tested it - exactly what I wanted. Thank you very much! Where did you get the synthax from and why does this setting require brackets? Robert