From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
Cc: johnw@newartisans.com, theophilusx@gmail.com,
lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org,
schwab@linux-m68k.org, stephen@xemacs.org
Subject: Re: Proposed patch: allow user to disable lockfile creation
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 19:40:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1QmwfO-0003wZ-Fv@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2d3gt7vtu.fsf@pluto.luannocracy.com> (message from Dave Abrahams on Thu, 28 Jul 2011 20:51:41 -0400)
It's actually more than that. The scheme is simultaneously
over-cautious and yet full of holes.
So what? It still does a very useful job, providing advance warning
about simultaneous editing in many cases.
It's predicated on the idea that
everybody who might touch the file simultaneously is using Emacs,
No such assumption is made, because Emacs does not depend on this
feature to function every time.
The advance warning feature functions if the other person uses Emacs.
That's better than nothing.
Furthermore, Emacs is perfectly capable of telling me when that has
happened before I save... at least it seems to work pretty darned
reliably.
That is why the advance warning feature does not need to be 100%
dependable. It is an added convenience. It is convenient to get the
warning before you start editing, rather than only when you try to
save the file.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-29 23:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-27 2:42 Proposed patch: allow user to disable lockfile creation Dave Abrahams
2011-07-27 15:32 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-07-27 16:25 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-07-27 18:56 ` John Wiegley
2011-07-28 1:57 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-07-28 16:46 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-28 16:54 ` Lennart Borgman
2011-07-28 23:00 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-29 0:12 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-29 0:51 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-07-29 23:40 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2011-07-30 3:29 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-07-30 7:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-07-30 12:32 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-07-30 18:12 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-31 2:13 ` Tim Cross
2011-07-29 23:40 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-30 12:46 ` Dave Abrahams
2011-07-28 18:22 ` chad
2011-07-28 23:00 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-28 19:21 ` Paul Eggert
2011-07-29 17:31 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-29 19:59 ` David Kastrup
2011-07-30 4:35 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-30 7:36 ` David Kastrup
2011-07-29 3:31 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2011-07-28 21:20 ` Evil Boris
2011-07-30 14:20 ` Daniel Colascione
2011-07-30 18:12 ` Richard Stallman
2011-07-31 2:22 ` Tim Cross
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