Re: disturbing link

[Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net>]

In article <3DA20CA2.2090608@gmx.net>, Trilobit  <trilobot@gmx.net> 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.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@genuity.net
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