From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Trilobit Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: disturbing link Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2002 14:01:25 +0200 Organization: TU Dresden (URZ) Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <3DA2C915.801@gmx.net> References: <3DA20CA2.2090608@gmx.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1034078829 21188 127.0.0.1 (8 Oct 2002 12:07:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2002 12:07:09 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17yt8k-0005VZ-00 for ; Tue, 08 Oct 2002 14:07:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17yt7t-0007NN-00; Tue, 08 Oct 2002 08:06:13 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!193.174.75.178!news-fra1.dfn.de!news-ber1.dfn.de!news.urz.tu-dresden.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.30.224.245 User-Agent: Mozilla/9.9 (Turing Windows; U; Turing Machine; rv:9.9.9;) X-Accept-Language: de, en Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:105827 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:2374 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:2374 Barry Margolin wrote: > In article <3DA20CA2.2090608@gmx.net>, Trilobit wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>if you cange the contents of an file(example: bla.txt) with Emacs >>(running under linux) and don't save it >>Emacs generates a link: >> >>$>ls -l >>lrwxrwxrwx 1 Trilobit Trilobit 36 8. Okt 00:16 .#bla.txt >>-> Trilobit@***.tu-dresden.de.932 >>-rw-r--r-- 1 Trilobit Trilobit 0 8. Okt 00:16 bla.txt >> >>this link is removed after the file is saved, but newly createt after a >>new change of the content, that's quite disturbing. >> >>Is there any option to tell Emacs never to create this link, or at least >>to create it in another directory? >>(the "autosave" option and the "make backup" option are already swtiched >>off, with no result ;-( ) > > > That's the auto-save file, so I think you didn't properly turn off > auto-save. > > Note that (auto-save-mode nil) only turns off auto-save of the current > buffer, not all buffers. If you want auto-save off by default in all > buffers, set auto-save-default to nil. > I don't believe that that could be the autosave file, because it is just a link, it is ever 37 bytes in size no matter how big the textfile is (it's just a link ...) I've set the option like you said, it does not matter (I've had it set before ...). It's something else, but I do not now what it could be. Has somebody any idea what that link could be and how to get rid of it?