From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: John Wiegley <johnw@boostpro.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposed patch: allow user to disable lockfile creation
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:25:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2tya7r8rd.fsf@pluto.luannocracy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2r55b4u3l.fsf@igel.home> (Andreas Schwab's message of "Wed, 27 Jul 2011 17:32:46 +0200")
on Wed Jul 27 2011, Andreas Schwab <schwab-AT-linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> 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
>
> Can you expand?
Sure; for example, I have various tools that crawl the filesystem
looking for specially-named files, and when they operate on these
partially-complete files, it causes random trouble. Sometimes it's
visible trouble, but sometimes it isn't (and invisible trouble is
worse). Plus, they're annoying and distracting to look at in dired
buffers and the like.
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.
--
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-27 16:25 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 [this message]
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
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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