better backup folder location ; make ido.last gitignore more robust

.gitignore

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 *.elc
 orig/
-ido.last
+**ido.last**
 **/auto-save-list
+**/backups
 **/bookmarks
 **/persp-confs
 **/beancount-mode

common/_global.el

@@ -199,7 +199,21 @@
 (ido-mode 1)
 (setq-default tab-width 4) ; sanity!
 (electric-indent-mode 0) ; return should NOT fuck with the indentation of the previous line
-(setq backup-directory-alist `(("." . (expand-file-name "saves" user-emacs-directory)))) ; Move the auto backups to a dedicated 'zone'
+
+;; make typing delete/overwrites selected text
+(delete-selection-mode 1)
+
+;; UTF-8 as default encoding
+(set-default-coding-systems 'utf-8)
+(set-language-environment "UTF-8")
+(set-default-coding-systems 'utf-8-unix)
+
+; backups
+(defconst kmn/backup-dir
+  (expand-file-name "backups" user-emacs-directory))
+(unless (file-exists-p kmn/backup-dir)
+  (make-directory kmn/backup-dir))
+(setq backup-directory-alist `((kmn/backup-dir)))
 (setq backup-by-copying t) ; safest form of backup file creation
 ; Config backups so we have *more*, not less
 (setq delete-old-versions t
@@ -207,13 +221,6 @@
     kept-old-versions 3
     version-control t
 )
-;; make typing delete/overwrites selected text
-(delete-selection-mode 1)
-;; UTF-8 as default encoding
-(set-default-coding-systems 'utf-8)
-(set-language-environment "UTF-8")
-(set-default-coding-systems 'utf-8-unix)
-
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 ;; set font for emoji -- DOES NOT WORK ON MOBILE
 (when (eq system-type 'windows-nt)