From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Proposed patch: allow user to disable lockfile creation Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:12:08 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87ei1bqi8p.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1312049540 18605 80.91.229.12 (30 Jul 2011 18:12:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2011 18:12:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: johnw@newartisans.com, theophilusx@gmail.com, lennart.borgman@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, schwab@linux-m68k.org, stephen@xemacs.org To: Dave Abrahams Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jul 30 20:12:15 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QnE1G-0008Vx-DP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 20:12:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35595 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QnE1F-0007GJ-3L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:12:13 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:46853) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QnE1C-0007Fu-4Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:12:11 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QnE1B-0002yN-3A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:12:10 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]:34326) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QnE1B-0002yJ-0L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:12:09 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QnE1A-0004sy-C9; Sat, 30 Jul 2011 14:12:08 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Dave Abrahams on Fri, 29 Jul 2011 23:29:38 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.10 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:142527 Archived-At: > 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. I'm sure that depends on your perspective about what's convenient. The advance warning feature may be convenient for you, but for me (and apparently I'm not alone) it's a nuisance. We are miscommunicating. I am not arguing against the feature you requested. I don't see anything bad about it. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use free telephony http://directory.fsf.org/category/tel/