Re: file lock specification

Eric S. Johansson writes: The .#<filename> form is a lockfile. On Unix it is implemented as a symlink. Its purpose is to tells XEmacs that some XEmacs process is using that file, and which one, so that XEmacs can warn you that it's unsafe to edit a file being edited by another process. The #<filename># form is an autosave file. That is, it is an automatic, temporary backup that you can use to recover most of your recent changes if XEmacs (or the whole system) crashes before you do an explicit save. I'm still catching up from a hellish week and don't have time to look up details today, but if you use C-h a (aka M-x apropos) you can get a list of function and variable names containing the strings "lock" and "autosave" (or maybe "auto-save") to get some suggestions about what to change. _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta