This will do it for the directory emacs-backup:

(setq backup-directory-alist `(("." . ,(expand-file-name "~/emacs-backup"))))

Simple, huh?

Jan 21, 2004

emacs-backups (/progtricks)
2004-01-21, 11:44 [edit]

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