From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Hansen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Hot to prevent emacs from generating ".#xxxx" files? Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:43:44 +0200 Organization: disorganized Message-ID: <878wudpr2n.fsf@localhorst.mine.nu> References: <19235974.post@talk.nabble.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220169333 23597 80.91.229.12 (31 Aug 2008 07:55:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:55:33 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 31 09:56:28 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KZhnP-0000UY-KD for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:56:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33516 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KZhmQ-0003zE-MZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:55:26 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KZhm8-0003z9-25 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:55:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KZhm6-0003yx-NK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:55:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44646 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KZhm6-0003yu-J0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:55:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:24569) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KZhm6-0006Bm-46 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:55:06 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KZhm4-0005y9-Gx for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:55:04 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KZhm2-00076U-V3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:55:03 +0000 Original-Received: from e178024168.adsl.alicedsl.de ([85.178.24.168]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:55:02 +0000 Original-Received: from david.hansen by e178024168.adsl.alicedsl.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 31 Aug 2008 07:55:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 16 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: e178024168.adsl.alicedsl.de Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:OHoyS6R9bpwvDME0jQHc2tVc7oE= X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:57138 Archived-At: On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:57:51 -0700 (PDT) gooood wrote: > When edit files with emacs, emacs will generate a broken symbolic link. > For example if you open ~/a.txt in emacs and type some words, > there will be a symbolic lnk named .#a.txt in your home directory. > Is there some method to prevent emacs from generating this file? Why would you want to do that? Emacs uses them for locking and auto saving. Unless you like painful data loss you should be happy they are there. > Or put it in another directory such as '/tmp'? I don't think so. David