Re: Xemacs 21.4.3 generating .#Filename file when editing

Friday, 5 October 2001

        The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to comp.emacs.xemacs as well.

...
>>>> "Jonathan" == Jonathan Albrecht
<albrecht(a)algorithmics.com&gt; writes: 
    Jonathan> Sorry, I don't see how this could be a cvs interation. I
    Jonathan> am not using cvs. The .# files are created by xemacs
    Jonathan> 21.4.3 when I make changes in a buffer corresponding to
    Jonathan> a visited file. Here is the description of the behaviour
    Jonathan> I see:

    Jonathan> If I am editing a file on a NT filesystem the .# file
    Jonathan> only exists while the buffer for the file has unsaved
    Jonathan> changes. On NT, as soon as I save the file, the
    Jonathan> corresponding .# file is deleted. If the file being
    Jonathan> edited is on a samba filesystem, the .#file is not
    Jonathan> deleted.

    Jonathan> It seems to me that the .# file is just there to show
    Jonathan> that the buffer and its corresponding file are out of
    Jonathan> sync. I see that the .# filename format is the same
    Jonathan> format as for files in which merge collisions have
    Jonathan> occured in cvs, but I think that is just a coincidence
    Jonathan> in this case. Unless PCL-CVS is doing something wacky to
    Jonathan> every file being edited.

Hi Jonathan,

what do you use PCL-CVS for, when you are not using cvs?

Anyway, I think Eli is right.  These are probably interlocking files.

See:
http://cvs.xemacs.org/cgi-bin/cvswebxe/xemacs/src/filelock.c?rev=1.11

I don't have file-locking in my native Windows 2000 XEmacs.

All I can suggest is this:

(setq inhibit-clash-detection nil)

Hope this helps,

Adrian

    Jonathan> Thanks,

    Jonathan> Jon

    Jonathan> Adrian Aichner wrote:

    >>...
>>>> "Jonathan" ==
Jonathan Albrecht <albrecht(a)algorithmics.com&gt; writes:    
>>>>>>> 
    Jonathan> I just tried XEmacs 21.1.13 and it does not create the

    Jonathan> .# files. Anyone know what they are for?
...
> For an answer to your question see the CVS manuals. 
...
> If you have cvs Info files installed following sexp should beam
you 
...
> there:
> (Info-goto-node "(cvs)update output") 
...
> Best regards, 
...
> Adrian 
    Jonathan> Jon

    Jonathan> Jonathan Albrecht wrote:

...
> >> No the .# files do not go away when I exit XEmacs. If I
am
> >> editing a 
...
> >> file on a NT filesystem the .# file only exists while
the buffer for
> >> the file has unsaved changes. On NT, as soon as I save the file, the
> >> corresponding .# file is deleted. If the file being edited is on a
> >> samba filesystem, the .#file is not deleted. I don't know if this is
> >> an XEmacs or cygwin problem.
> >> Jon 
...
> >> David Masterson wrote: 
...
> >>     >>> IIRC, the '.#' files don't
have anything to do with
> >>     >>> CVS (or the Emacs 
...
> >>> interface to CVS) -- I believe its created by
auto-save-mode, but I
> >>> could be wrong (auto-save files are '#file#'?).  This facility
is
> >>> (mostly?) built-in, so it wouldn't show up in the .el files (unless
> >>> you really know what you're looking for).  Also, although I said
the
> >>> '!<symlink>' is a Cygwin symlink, I'm not sure what
it's a symlink to.
> >>>     >>> Does the .# file go away when you exit Emacs?  If
> >>>     >>> so, don't worry 
...
> >>> about it -- Emacs is handling it.
> >>>     >>> What I haven't figured out is how to handle the
> >>>     >>> '.saves-*' files that 
...
> >>> (X)Emacs generates on all platforms I use it on. 
They don't seem to
> >>> go away unless I specifically delete them.
> >>>     >>>     >>>>>>>> Jonathan Albrecht
writes: 
...
> >>>>>>>>     >>>    
>>>> Thanks for the info. So it seems that
> >>>>>>>>     >>>     >>>> xemacs is
trying to make a 
...
> >>>> symlink of the form:
> >>>>     >>>     >>>> .#filename 
...
> >>>>     >>>     >>>> to the
file: 
...
> >>>>     >>>     >>>> filename

...
> >>>>     >>>     >>>> for some
reason. I've been grepping
> >>>>     >>>     >>>> through the .el files for .#
but 
...
> >>>> the only thing I've found is some cvs
related stuff. I'm not using
> >>>> cvs. Does anyone know what else .# prefixed files are used for? I
> >>>> don't think it's auto-save, those filenames are of the form
#filename#
> >>>> I believe. I'll look into it some more though.
> >>>>     >>>     >>>> Jon 
...
> >>>>     >>>     >>>> David
Masterson wrote: 
...
> >>>>     >>>    
>>>>>>>>>> Jonathan Albrecht writes: 
...
> >>>>>>>>>>    
>>>>>>>>>> 
...
>>>>>> I am using Xemacs 21.4.3 on cygwin. I am
finding that when I edit file
>>>>>> there is another file generated with the same filename but
prefixed
>>>>>> with '.#'. The contents of the file are:
>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>     >>>>>> 
...
>>>>>>
!&lt;symlink&gt;albrecht(a)toralbrecht.myhost.com.328^＠
>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>     >>>>>> 
...
>>>>>> anyone know what is generating these files?
>>>>>> 
> >>>>>>     >>>>>>     >>>>> Not
off-hand.  The ".#" files are
> >>>>>>     >>>>>>     >>>>>
temporary Emacs (autosave?) files 
...
> >>>>> for the file you're currently editing
and should go away when you save
> >>>>> the file.  The "!<symlink>" file is a symbolic
link in Cygwin.
> >>>>>     >>>>>     >>>     >>>    
>> 

-- 
Adrian Aichner
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 http://www.xemacs.org/

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