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bug#34911: 26.1; doc about lock file names
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#34911: 26.1; doc about lock file names |
Date: |
Mon, 18 Mar 2019 15:47:52 -0700 (PDT) |
I started from the doc of `dired-omit-files', which says:
The default is to omit `.', `..', auto-save files and lock files.
^^^^^^^^^^
And the default value is this: "^\\.?#\\|^\\.$\\|^\\.\\.$"
I can only guess that a lock file has either the same syntax as (the
default syntax of) an auto-save file: `#...#', or that prefixed by `.':
`.#...#'. In fact, it's a stretch to guess even that, as the ^\.?#
doesn't necessarily match even an auto-save file (no # appended).
I don't see documented anywhere what a lock file name looks like.
I looked through both the Emacs manual and the Elisp manual. Did I miss
it somehow, or is it defined/described nowhere?
Please let users know what how lock files are named. Thx. If this is
already done somewhere, please refer to that location from node (elisp)
`File Locks'.
Please also update the doc of `dired-omit-files' to make clear that its
default value only approximately matches auto-save files (and lock
files?), and that even this is true only for the default naming regime
for auto-save files.
In GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
of 2018-05-30
Repository revision: 07f8f9bc5a51f5aa94eb099f3e15fbe0c20ea1ea
Windowing system distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 10.0.17134
Configured using:
`configure --without-dbus --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
--without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-O2 -static -g3''
- bug#34911: 26.1; doc about lock file names,
Drew Adams <=