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From: Evil Boris <evilborisnet@netscape.net>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposed patch: allow user to disable lockfile creation
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 17:20:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <82fwlqm7ae.fsf@D928810BF0.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2fwlstpeo.fsf@pluto.luannocracy.com


Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:

> Those symlinks that emacs creates to help avoid collisions between users
> editing simultaneously cause me lots of pain and no gain, so I propose
> the enclosed patch that allows me to disable the feature.

No one has brought this up yet: in my use case files are very rarely
edited by multiple users, but they are often edited by multiple
simultaneous instances of emacs; sometimes by multiple versions of
emacs.  I have been saved by the locking mechanism more than once.  Not
sure how crucial symlinks are to the implementation of those.  
Please do not remove the feature altogether.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-07-28 21:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-27  2:42 Proposed patch: allow user to disable lockfile creation Dave Abrahams
2011-07-27 15:32 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-07-27 16:25   ` Dave Abrahams
2011-07-27 18:56     ` John Wiegley
2011-07-28  1:57       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-07-28 16:46         ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-28 16:54           ` Lennart Borgman
2011-07-28 23:00             ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-29  0:12               ` Tim Cross
2011-07-29  0:51                 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-07-29 23:40                   ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-30  3:29                     ` Dave Abrahams
2011-07-30  7:21                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-30 12:32                         ` Dave Abrahams
2011-07-30 18:12                       ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-31  2:13                   ` Tim Cross
2011-07-29 23:40                 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-30 12:46                   ` Dave Abrahams
2011-07-28 18:22           ` chad
2011-07-28 23:00             ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-28 19:21           ` Paul Eggert
2011-07-29 17:31             ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-29 19:59               ` David Kastrup
2011-07-30  4:35                 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-30  7:36                   ` David Kastrup
2011-07-29  3:31           ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-07-28 21:20 ` Evil Boris [this message]
2011-07-30 14:20 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-07-30 18:12   ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-31  2:22     ` Tim Cross

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