From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Robert Pluim Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#31908: Save file locks in centralized location Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 10:34:50 +0200 Message-ID: <877ems4jx1.fsf@gmail.com> References: <5db0cafc33dd36dd9bc279f035cce3a0@webmail.orcon.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1529570005 4393 195.159.176.226 (21 Jun 2018 08:33:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 08:33:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: psainty@orcon.net.nz, bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+psainty=orcon.net.nz@gnu.org, 31908@debbugs.gnu.org To: Radon Rosborough Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 21 10:33:21 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fVv1l-0000pD-Fr for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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Thu, 21 Jun 2018 01:34:51 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from rpluim-ubuntu ([149.5.228.1]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id v14-v6sm4770072wro.33.2018.06.21.01.34.50 (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 21 Jun 2018 01:34:51 -0700 (PDT) Mail-Copies-To: never Gmane-Reply-To-List: yes In-Reply-To: (Radon Rosborough's message of "Wed, 20 Jun 2018 09:29:26 -0600") X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:147694 Archived-At: Radon Rosborough writes: >> If users had their own custom location for locks, surely the locking >> would cease to have any significant purpose [...] The utility would >> be reduced to preventing you from simultaneously using multiple >> separate emacs instances to edit/write a given file. > > I run a single-user system; preventing concurrent edits is the only > purpose of the locking mechanism for me. This feature would hardly > remove "any significant purpose" from it. If implemented, this feature would almost certainly be off by default, so no existing users would end up being surprised. Robert