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Re: Hot to prevent emacs from generating ".#xxxx" files?
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David Hansen |
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Re: Hot to prevent emacs from generating ".#xxxx" files? |
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Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:41:38 +0200 |
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On Sun, 31 Aug 2008 16:37:04 +0800 s. ticket wrote:
>> Why would you want to do that? Emacs uses them for locking and auto
>> saving. Unless you like painful data loss you should be happy they are
>> there.
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> Because when emacs exits abnormally, it may leave a lot of ".#xxx" files.
> It may break some compiling as some compile tools just search all ".c" files
> in the directory and complain "can't open .#xxx.c" ;
That's exactly why you want them. After a crash you can M-x
recover-this-file and get you changes back.
David