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From: John Wiegley <johnw@newartisans.com>
To: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposed patch: allow user to disable lockfile creation
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 13:56:47 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m24o27blhs.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2tya7r8rd.fsf@pluto.luannocracy.com> (Dave Abrahams's message of "Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:25:10 -0400")

Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:

> On the other hand, I never collaboratively edit the same file as someone
> else, and I use global-auto-revert-mode so that if I'm doing it in two
> different emacs sessions, they stay in synch or I'm warned.
>
> For me, the lockfiles offer no benefits and significant drawbacks.

I concur.  This is an annonying feature which has never once made any
difference to me.  I've been wanting a way to disable it for months now.

John



  reply	other threads:[~2011-07-27 18:56 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 [this message]
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
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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