From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: 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) Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 11:05:32 +0200 Message-ID: <89F9FCB5-8757-4B5C-ADE3-26D1337D1160@Web.DE> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1084) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1341392753 5755 80.91.229.3 (4 Jul 2012 09:05:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2012 09:05:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Jeffrey Spencer Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jul 04 11:05:52 2012 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 1SmLWu-0005Mi-Qy for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 11:05:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47695 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SmLWt-0003xB-OG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 05:05:47 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:55155) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SmLWj-0003wD-Pd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 05:05:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SmLWh-0005YG-PN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 05:05:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.web.de ([212.227.15.3]:52793) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SmLWh-0005WP-6Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 05:05:35 -0400 Original-Received: from sumac.fritz.box ([95.223.133.231]) by smtp.web.de (mrweb002) with ESMTPA (Nemesis) id 0LgYi5-1RzJCC1yWD-00nkkp; Wed, 04 Jul 2012 11:05:33 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1084) X-Provags-ID: V02:K0:Ov0YGR2HTH6bv9/9K7mDgF6/9ERkXt8Rd8wHJSajmMU CP0tLLyGxf0ZCHxGF0wqeJXXNWkKNUFyC6i0TFAuoSJ7LdNUV8 Yvg2RVgMXkZbtOaDuj9gfKn7dCN9jdfowCxuglrKis8h6bsKl/ 17uJsOpRjIPdqWkyoN/N2xlgtmLzg/Hj1zjru2HtFLi61oZgNa j6vDbfnLt63HLCTq6483A== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 212.227.15.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85643 Archived-At: 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). -- Greetings Pete Don't force it; get a larger hammer.=20 =96 Anthony's Law of Force