From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#31636: 27.0.50; lockfile syntax searchable from info manual Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 05:42:33 +0300 Message-ID: <83h8mpvp7q.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20180529073311.EEA09102DA@mailuser.nyi.internal> <876036hn2e.fsf@gmail.com> <87tvqqd7rp.fsf@gmail.com> <87r2lufvo9.fsf@gmail.com> <83r2luv28h.fsf@gnu.org> <52c8c394-add3-63c9-a62a-bea85e9d006e@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1527648075 25006 195.159.176.226 (30 May 2018 02:41:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 02:41:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mail@bradyt.com, rpluim@gmail.com, npostavs@gmail.com, 31636@debbugs.gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 30 04:41:10 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fNr30-0006Lb-5R for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 30 May 2018 04:41:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35876 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNr55-0004eh-GF for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 May 2018 22:43:19 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55748) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNr4r-0004eO-2w for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2018 22:43:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNr4o-0003bu-CV for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2018 22:43:05 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:46619) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNr4o-0003bh-8P for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2018 22:43:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fNr4o-0006XB-2u for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2018 22:43:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Wed, 30 May 2018 02:43:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 31636 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 31636-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B31636.152764816725090 (code B ref 31636); Wed, 30 May 2018 02:43:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 31636) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 May 2018 02:42:47 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54515 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fNr4Z-0006Wc-E7 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2018 22:42:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36410) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fNr4X-0006WF-Sw for 31636@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2018 22:42:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNr4P-0003NL-MQ for 31636@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 29 May 2018 22:42:40 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:47600) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fNr4P-0003NF-Hu; Tue, 29 May 2018 22:42:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2267 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fNr4P-0006Bw-4V; Tue, 29 May 2018 22:42:37 -0400 In-reply-to: <52c8c394-add3-63c9-a62a-bea85e9d006e@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Tue, 29 May 2018 12:20:48 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:146731 Archived-At: > Cc: npostavs@gmail.com, mail@bradyt.com, 31636@debbugs.gnu.org > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 12:20:48 -0700 > > On the one hand this is low-level detail. On the other, it is > user-visible detail, e.g., when I use dired or 'ls' on a directory I'll > see the symlinks. So I'd be mildly inclined to see a brief mention in > the user manual with details as necessary in the elisp manual. The user > manual could say something simple like 'lock files are directory entries > whose names begin with ".#"'. If more details are needed, they could be > in the elisp manual (e.g., MS-Windows lock names are independent of lock > names of other systems). OK, let's do it this way. Thanks.