# HG changeset patch
# User Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
# Date 955301020 0
# Node ID 05658544eaff4dc2350504c4147f2d94bd3d26eb
# Parent  98e34e5245c95b22b433f3802f2baa64a4621f94
backup-directory-alist, make-backup-file-name-function.

diff -r 98e34e5245c9 -r 05658544eaff etc/NEWS
--- a/etc/NEWS	Sun Apr 09 17:18:48 2000 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Sun Apr 09 17:23:40 2000 +0000
@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@
 
 * Changes in Emacs 21.1
 
+** New user options `backup-directory-alist' and
+`make-backup-file-name-function' are provided to control the placement
+of backups, typically in a single directory or in an invisible
+sub-directory.
+
 ** New commands iso-iso2sgml and iso-sgml2iso convert between Latin-1
 characters and the corresponding SGML (HTML) entities.