Hide Backup Files

[Jerry Lapham]

On Monday 06 October 2008 9:20:28 am Scott wrote:
> Willy K. Hamra wrote:
> > i'm afraid i don't have a direct answer to how to hide files ending with
> > ~, but in kwrite's and kate's settings, there's an ption to change the
> > naming of backups. if in one of these programs, you go to settings --->
> > configure kate/kwrite ---> open/save ---> advanced . there, you will
> > notice a field called suffix, and have the tilde (~) in it, you can
> > leave it as it is if you want to , and in the prefix field, put a dot
> > (.) , all files are starting with a dot are usually hidden, this will
> > make kate and kwrite create hidden backups. hope this helps.
>
> I just want to give you a big thank you.  I did work perfectly.  All the
> backup files are hidden until I "show hidden files" and Konqueror still
> even recognizes them as backup files.

It also works with Quanta Plus and Dolphin.

	-Jerry
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