From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: HASM Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs dropbox conflict Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 07:38:05 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: <87vazsmpma.fsf@127.0.0.1> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1469544339 7210 80.91.229.3 (26 Jul 2016 14:45:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 14:45:39 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 26 16:45:38 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bS3c1-0005Hn-8o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2016 16:45:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40315 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bS3bx-0004D5-6o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Jul 2016 10:45:33 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!2.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!news2.arglkargh.de!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="67abaace52096eb9ef4967a6e2e11c0b"; logging-data="22495"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/HbfPgCYVsiXZmAr4HMlRBVO/24Gg6wic=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.95 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Wn35tXhMHn4vfY/I8ZpVJGy9b7I= sha1:lDLzMqCPB6S2tXi8TlTT1eIo2cA= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:218621 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:110932 Archived-At: > However emacs also seems to create another file -- a link .#filename > that causes some conflict > Can emcas be setup to not have that file be in the same > directory as the file being worked on? I think you can disable those files https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/File-Locks.html not sure if moving them is an option. -- HASM