From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bob Proulx Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: CLASH_DETECTION option in configure Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2013 16:36:59 -0700 Message-ID: <20130203233659.GA30144@hysteria.proulx.com> References: <20130130145503.54e2572bafd6283f61956823@lavabit.com> <31ip6edzxd.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <20130203151143.b0e727fa15c48fccee3a4dbc@lavabit.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1359934635 10877 80.91.229.3 (3 Feb 2013 23:37:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2013 23:37:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 04 00:37:33 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1U297m-0001O4-Uk for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Feb 2013 00:37:27 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36950 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U297U-0001Kw-7f for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:37:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37989) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U297O-0001Jy-QQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:37:03 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U297N-0003es-IF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:37:02 -0500 Original-Received: from joseki.proulx.com ([216.17.153.58]:52277) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1U297N-0003en-BE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:37:01 -0500 Original-Received: from hysteria.proulx.com (hysteria.proulx.com [192.168.230.119]) by joseki.proulx.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BED6211D5 for ; Sun, 3 Feb 2013 16:37:00 -0700 (MST) Original-Received: by hysteria.proulx.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E367A2DC96; Sun, 3 Feb 2013 16:36:59 -0700 (MST) Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20130203151143.b0e727fa15c48fccee3a4dbc@lavabit.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 216.17.153.58 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:88933 Archived-At: rh wrote: > It seems like an antiquated feature and it doesn't make sense to > have it enabled by default. Since version control systems are every > where now I can't see why anyone would want or use this feature. > What's the use case? If you as a single user try to edit a file from two different terminals then it will be detected and a collision avoided. I often run into cases where emacs notifies me that I am already editing a file in another terminal. The use case is far from antiquated and has nothing to do with version control. Because unintended data loss can result if it were disabled the feature is enabld by default. I will turn the same question around on you. Why would you ever want to disable this feature? Why is it causing you difficulty? If as you say you would never hit this issue then you should also by that same reasoning never know it is there either. Bob