How can I hide the backup files that emacs creates?

Question

I just started using emacs after having used vi for a long time. :)

One thing which is annoying me is that whenever I modify a file, save it and exit emacs, I see a back

Answer 1

The following lines in ~/.emacs will put all of the auto-save and backup files in /tmp:

(setq backup-directory-alist
      `((".*" . ,temporary-file-directory)))
(setq auto-save-file-name-transforms
      `((".*" ,temporary-file-directory t)))