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

Here is a link to the same question answered on SuperUser and my response. And a StackOverflow question entitled Emacs: Don’t create #these# files when not saving modified buffer

And for completeness, as stated by others; to stop the backup files being created put this in your .emacs

(setq make-backup-files nil)