From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nikolaj Schumacher Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Hidden symlinks, sshfs, and svn Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:44:06 +0200 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1219495487 16903 80.91.229.12 (23 Aug 2008 12:44:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:44:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: "Tavian Barnes" Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 23 14:45:40 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 1KWsUp-0004Xk-51 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:45:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50240 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KWsTr-0000cw-9v for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:44:35 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KWsTb-0000cf-5C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:44:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KWsTZ-0000cL-3Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:44:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34975 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KWsTY-0000cI-Qk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:44:16 -0400 Original-Received: from dd18200.kasserver.com ([85.13.138.168]:53933) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KWsTY-0002KL-Oh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 08:44:16 -0400 Original-Received: from thursday (kobz-590f2e2a.pool.einsundeins.de [89.15.46.42]) by dd18200.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08B341802C7BF; Sat, 23 Aug 2008 14:44:10 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Tavian Barnes's message of "Thu\, 21 Aug 2008 14\:10\:03 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2.50 (darwin) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:56908 Archived-At: "Tavian Barnes" wrote: > I've noticed that emacs creates hidden symlinks when unsaved files are > left open long enough (regardless of auto-save-mode) named something > like '.#' and pointing to something like > '@..:'. > > [SNIP] > > - From an informative standpoint, what purpose do these links have? I believe they are used to "lock" the file to prevent editing the file from different emacs instances. > - How can I tell emacs not to create them? Or, is there a better way > to deal with this problem? I've never had problems with svn. I have the following in my ~/.subversion/config, so that might help: [miscellany] global-ignores = \#*\# .*~ *~ .\#* regards, Nikolaj Schumacher