From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Simone Magri Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs lock files Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:29:36 +1000 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <200209260429.OAA06856@callisto.atnf.CSIRO.AU> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033014621 16294 127.0.0.1 (26 Sep 2002 04:30:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 04:30:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17uQI5-0004Ef-00 for ; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 06:30:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17uQIB-000220-00; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 00:30:23 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17uQHh-0001xQ-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 00:29:53 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17uQHf-0001x3-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 00:29:52 -0400 Original-Received: from crux.tip.csiro.au ([130.155.194.32]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17uQHe-0001we-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 00:29:50 -0400 Original-Received: (from daemon@localhost) by crux.tip.CSIRO.AU (8.9.3/8.9.3/TIPAT-1.2a) id OAA24896; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:29:45 +1000 (EST) Original-Received: from callisto.atnf.CSIRO.AU(130.155.198.85) via SMTP by crux.tip.CSIRO.AU, id smtpdAAAa24885; Thu Sep 26 14:29:37 2002 Original-Received: (from smagri@localhost) by callisto.atnf.CSIRO.AU (8.6.12/8.6.12) id OAA06856; Thu, 26 Sep 2002 14:29:36 +1000 Original-To: grossjoh@lothlorien.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Kai =?iso-8859-15?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:1874 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:1874 The lockfile protocol in emacs v20.7.2 seems specific to emacs. Is there anyway to turn on the old, emacs v19.30.1, more generic behaviour. So that emacs lockfiles can work with procmail. -- Regards, Simone Magri email: smagri@atnf.csiro.au http://www.atnf.csiro.au/~smagri grossjoh@ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de writes: > Simone Magri writes: > > > I process my mail into different folders via procmail. To make this > > work properly I need to know where emacs puts its lockfile for an > > edited file/folder that already exists. > > The lockfile is now placed in the same directory as the file itself. > > kai > -- > ~/.signature is: umop 3p!sdn (Frank Nobis)