Re: Question: suppress ask-user-about-lock?

[Michael Albinus]

Qiantan Hong <qhong@mit.edu> writes:

Hi,

> Is there a standard way to cause lock-buffer immediately fail?

Do you mean with "fail" that lock-buffer shall do nothing?

> (let ((noninteractive t)) (lock-buffer)) is an obvious one,
> but not sure if it’s good practice.

Set or bind create-lockfiles to nil.

> Best,
> Qiantan

Best regards, Michael.