Emacs 24.1 and 23.3 on Ubuntu forcing temporary files .#whatever.txt in the same folder (the files are actually symlinks to user@system)

Emacs 24.1 and 23.3 on Ubuntu forcing temporary files .#whatever.txt in the same folder (the files are actually symlinks to user@system)

[Jeffrey Spencer]

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Is there a reason for this and a way to stop this? I have emacs 24.1 on one
system and 23.3 on the other. It does it on both but both contain ubuntu.

I have backups and autosave set to go to my .emacs.d/ folder. I can't seem
to see why these are created or how to stop. Even running emacs -q they are
still created and seem like a link to the system. Here is what it shows in
dired:

.#temper1.py -> big@big-desktop.774:1341142158

So a link to user@system but where is this file actually created??

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Re: Emacs 24.1 and 23.3 on Ubuntu forcing temporary files .#whatever.txt in the same folder (the files are actually symlinks to user@system)

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 04.07.2012 um 10:48 schrieb Jeffrey Spencer:

> I can't seem to see why these are created or how to stop.

These files are semaphores and make visible that some user on some machine is editing the file and has changed its contents while the file system still contains an elder, not yet updated and saved version.

I don't know how to change this (not editing? Instantaneously auto-saving?). It might be useful to make dired/dired-x not show these (dired-mode-hook, dired-omit-files).

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Greetings

  Pete

Don't force it; get a larger hammer. 
				– Anthony's Law of Force

Re: Emacs 24.1 and 23.3 on Ubuntu forcing temporary files .#whatever.txt in the same folder (the files are actually symlinks to user@system)

[Teemu Likonen]

Jeffrey Spencer [2012-07-04 18:48:52 +1000] wrote:

> Is there a reason for this and a way to stop this?

It's about locking the file. For more information, read:

    (info "(emacs) Interlocking")