Emacs: disable file backups

I can't remember the last time I needed to restore a file from here

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 12 deletions

diff --git a/user/emacs/init.el b/user/emacs/init.el
index 2b7e9ce7..f21325a3 100644
--- a/user/emacs/init.el
+++ b/user/emacs/init.el
@@ -599,18 +599,6 @@ _p_rev       _u_pper              _=_: upper/lower       _r_esolve
                   auto-revert-use-notify t)
             (global-auto-revert-mode t)))
 
-;;;; Backups
-
-;; I like to keep my backups out of regular folders.  I tell emacs to use
-;; a subfolder of its configuration directory for that.  Also, use the
-;; trash for deleting on OS X.
-(let ((backup-dir (expand-file-name "emacs" (or (getenv "XDG_DATA_HOME")
-                                                "~/.local/share"))))
-  (unless (file-directory-p backup-dir)
-    (make-directory backup-dir))
-  (setq backup-directory-alist `((".*" . ,backup-dir))
-        backup-by-copying-when-linked t
-        backup-by-copying-when-mismatch t))
 
 (setq delete-by-moving-to-trash t)