From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rusi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs dropbox conflict Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 20:04:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <739dcd54-6602-4ad7-bf9f-11e16f65e701@googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1469588748 8538 80.91.229.3 (27 Jul 2016 03:05:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 03:05:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 27 05:05:43 2016 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 1bSFAD-0000ma-Rs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jul 2016 05:05:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:43536 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bSFAD-0001vS-55 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2016 23:05:41 -0400 X-Received: by 10.66.90.10 with SMTP id bs10mr23177568pab.12.1469588640577; Tue, 26 Jul 2016 20:04:00 -0700 (PDT) X-Received: by 10.157.42.76 with SMTP id t70mr1463437ota.8.1469588640500; Tue, 26 Jul 2016 20:04:00 -0700 (PDT) Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!f6no4996688ith.0!news-out.google.com!d68ni7767ith.0!nntp.google.com!f6no4996678ith.0!postnews.google.com!glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: glegroupsg2000goo.googlegroups.com; posting-host=123.201.56.115; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 123.201.56.115 User-Agent: G2/1.0 Injection-Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2016 03:04:00 +0000 Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:218633 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110944 Archived-At: On Wednesday, July 27, 2016 at 12:01:07 AM UTC+5:30, J. David Boyd wrote: > Rusi writes: >=20 > > I was working in emacs with a colleague: Different locations -- file sh= ared by dropbox > > > > Now we can set the backup to go somewhere outside the Dropbox directory > > However emacs also seems to create another file -- a link .#filename > > that causes some conflict > > > > Can emcas be setup to not have that file be in the same directory as th= e file being worked on? >=20 >=20 > Why would you want to do that? That file is a marker to tell you that so= meone > is editing the file. When done editing, doesn't that file go away? Two people, working together, talking on skype (say), using emacs to (simul= tate) sharing a screen. IOW we want and intend to edit the file at almost the same time=20 And so a bit of treading on each other=E2=80=99s toes is acceptable A: Ok Ive added this section. Can you check? B: Looks good... Ive changed the last sentence etc