From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: dboyd2@mmm.com (J. David Boyd) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs dropbox conflict Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 14:30:48 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1469557961 3051 80.91.229.3 (26 Jul 2016 18:32:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 18:32:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 26 20:32:33 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 1bS79c-0000qg-5T for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2016 20:32:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41708 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bS79b-0005u4-Da for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2016 14:32:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45463) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bS78B-0005RP-Up for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2016 14:31:04 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bS787-0007a1-JB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2016 14:31:02 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:40484) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bS787-0007ZW-D1 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2016 14:30:59 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bS784-0008Qd-C0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2016 20:30:56 +0200 Original-Received: from 169.15.136.127 ([169.15.136.127]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2016 20:30:56 +0200 Original-Received: from dboyd2 by 169.15.136.127 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2016 20:30:56 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 13 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 169.15.136.127 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (cygwin) Cancel-Lock: sha1:kDHRH28DLZt6nYAwR2YVlURs1Ew= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:110942 Archived-At: Rusi writes: > I was working in emacs with a colleague: Different locations -- file shared 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 the file being worked on? Why would you want to do that? That file is a marker to tell you that someone is editing the file. When done editing, doesn't that file go away?