X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_NEUTRAL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4A158191.60707@cornell.edu> Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 12:30:09 -0400 From: Ken Brown User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: .#* lock files under X, for files I edit??? References: <23655794.post@talk.nabble.com> <4A157FF5.6030407@cornell.edu> In-Reply-To: <4A157FF5.6030407@cornell.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On 5/21/2009 12:23 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > On 5/21/2009 12:00 PM, Marc Girod wrote: >> -rwxrwxrwx 1 emagiro ath 104 May 21 13:57 .#singlebuildweb.pl > [...] > > These look to me like emacs auto-save files. They should disappear each > time you save the file you're editing. Sorry, I think they're emacs lock files. Auto-save files look like #filename#. But they still should disappear each time you save the file. Ken -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/