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diff --git a/content/post/stop-mg-from-making-a-mess/index.org b/content/post/stop-mg-from-making-a-mess/index.org deleted file mode 100644 index 0e88fd7..0000000 --- a/content/post/stop-mg-from-making-a-mess/index.org +++ /dev/null @@ -1,53 +0,0 @@ -#+TITLE: Stop mg From Making A Mess -#+DATE: 2020-06-18T16:04:33-04:00 -#+DRAFT: false -#+DESCRIPTION: -#+TAGS[]: openbsd emacs mg -#+KEYWORDS[]: -#+SLUG: -#+SUMMARY: - -#+ATTR_HTML: :alt mg trash file -#+ATTR_HTML: :title mg trash file -[[file:mg%20trash%20file.png]] - -If you've been an OpenBSD user for any period of time, you probably -know what =mg= is. For those who don't know, =mg= stands for -MicroGnuEmacs. It's a small clone of Emacs maintained by the OpenBSD -team that's included with the base system. - -Being an Emacs user, I love that =mg= is part of the OpenBSD base -system. It's great to have an editor that has familiar keybinds on a -system that I haven't had the time to install any packages on. It also -has (in my opinion), more useful features than =vi=, like =auto-fill-mode= -and =dired=. - -Despite all of the excellent things it emulates from Emacs, it also -emulates a couple behaviours from Emacs that I find a little -annoying. One of those behaviours is leaving backup files everywhere -when editing. Backup files have the original file name, with a tilde -appended to the end. So if you're editing =pf.conf=, =mg= will -automatically create a backup file called =pf.conf~= in the same -directory. - -Backup files can be incredibly useful if you same a mistake while -editing and you want to see what the original file looked like, but -after a while of editing files, seeing your =/etc/= littered with -files ending in =~= can be a little annoying. - -Fortunately the creators of =mg= are aware of this issue and have -provided a way to deal with it. - -Edit the =.mg= in your home directory, or create it if it doesn't -exist. Then add the following line - -#+BEGIN_SRC -backup-to-home-directory -#+END_SRC - -That's it. Now =mg= will still create backup files, but it will save -them to =~/.mg.d/= instead of the directory of the file you're -editing. It saves the file as the full path to the original file, with -the forward slashes replaced by exclamation marks. So if you were -editing =/etc/pf.conf=, the backup file will be saved as -=~/.mg.d/!etc!pf.conf~=. |