From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Close .emacs file after customization? Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 09:57:47 -0700 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3E25930B.40500@ihs.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042649895 20131 80.91.224.249 (15 Jan 2003 16:58:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 16:58:15 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Yqrm-0005EZ-00 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 17:58:14 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18Yr0J-0004xJ-00 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 18:07:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18Yqru-00087I-01 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:58:22 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18YqrJ-00086W-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:57:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18YqrI-00085G-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:57:44 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18YqrH-00083P-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:57:43 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Yqpy-00055V-00 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 17:56:22 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18Yqpx-00055J-00 for ; Wed, 15 Jan 2003 17:56:21 +0100 Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS i86pc; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) Gecko/20020406 Netscape6/6.2.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:10752 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10752 Kevin A. Burton (burtonator) wrote: > This isn't a theoretical problem. I am trying to run multiple .emacs versions > and I want to maintain the same customization options across Emacs instances. > > If I open the .emacs file in one instance, customize it, then do the same in > another instance, they both have an open copy of the buffer and there are race > conditions as to which emacs version should be modifying the file. Shouldn't the locking mechanism at least ask you what to do before editing or saving the buffer? -- Kevin Rodgers