Questions tagged [lock-files]
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change location of straight.el lockfile
I'm using straight.el as a package manager in emacs and would like to make my settings and packages portable and identical over several machines
That's why I like to put the default.el file under ...
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How to disable automatic appearance of *Warnings* buffer in Emacs?
I use Emacs (version 28.1 on Windows 11-64bits) with AUCTeX to work with my LaTeX documents. The directory of files on which I'm working is synchronized in real time with a Dropbox cloud. This means ...
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Configuring dedicated directory for lock files and auto save files on MS-Windows
How do I configure a dedicated location for lock files and auto-save files that works on MS-Windows, GNU/Linux, and macOS? I'm using GNU Emacs 28.2
The following works on GNU/Linux but not on MS-...
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why is there always an auto-save file in the directory where the file I am editing?
I have specified both backup directory and auto-save directory.
;; set auto-save intervals
(setq auto-save-interval 25)
(setq auto-save-include-big-deletions t)
; auto save path
(defvar autosave-dir (...
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How can I make Emacs put files named like .#filename into another directory too
I want my autosave files and backup files, e.g. #filename.org# and filename.org~ files, not to clutter the directory in my code repo that is in TypeScript.
I have popped into a way to place inside ...
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What are .#foo files?
I have placed my autosave and backup files in a single directory .emacs-saves.
Backup files appear as ~foo
Autosave files appear as #foo#
But Emacs seems to also generate .#foo in the current ...
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Save lock-files to a directory instead of disabling them
Emacs 24 introduced the ability to disable the creation of the infamous .#file-name lock files.
Evaluating the following lisp form will completely disable Emacs ability to lock files to prevent ...
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