[k_bx]

I was proposing to make default where those files are not created, since Emacs is actually surprisingly great out of the box with no configuration, except for this "little" thing. Apparrently, some people believe it's perfect as it is

[mksybr]

It should default to a single location maybe a XDG directory instead of polluting every directory

[NetMageSCW]

What happens when you edit multiple files from different folders with the same name?

[jlarocco]

I tell emacs to create all of the files in "~/.backups", and it names them using the full pathname with "/" replaced with "!". So "~/foo/bar.txt" -> "!home!username!foo!bar.txt~"