From: John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>
To: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposed patch: allow user to disable lockfile creation
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:56:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m24o27blhs.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2tya7r8rd.fsf@pluto.luannocracy.com> (Dave Abrahams's message of "Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:25:10 -0400")
Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
> On the other hand, I never collaboratively edit the same file as someone
> else, and I use global-auto-revert-mode so that if I'm doing it in two
> different emacs sessions, they stay in synch or I'm warned.
>
> For me, the lockfiles offer no benefits and significant drawbacks.
I concur. This is an annonying feature which has never once made any
difference to me. I've been wanting a way to disable it for months now.
John
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-27 18:56 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 [this message]
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
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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