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Subject: Re: Check for other running emacs sessions?
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2006 18:32:11 +0200
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On Thu, Apr 06 2006, Lennart Borgman wrote:

> Another advantage is that you can not by mistake open a file twice.

When I try to edit a file in two Emacs sessions, I get:

,----
| gnus-fun.el locked by ste@bridgekee... (pid 19380): (s, q, p, ?)?
`----

,----
| It has been detected that you want to modify a file that someone else has
| already started modifying in EMACS.
| 
| You can <s>teal the file; The other user becomes the
|   intruder if (s)he ever unmodifies the file and then changes it again.
| You can <p>roceed; you edit at your own (and the other user's) risk.
| You can <q>uit; don't modify this file.nil
`----

See the function `ask-user-about-lock'.

Bye, Reiner.
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