GNU bug report logs - #31636
27.0.50; lockfile syntax searchable from info manual

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Brady Trainor <mail <at> bradyt.com>

Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 07:43:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 27.0.50

Done: Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #23 received at 31636 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, Robert Pluim <rpluim <at> gmail.com>
Cc: mail <at> bradyt.com, 31636 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, npostavs <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#31636: 27.0.50; lockfile syntax searchable from info manual
Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 12:20:48 -0700

On 05/29/2018 09:46 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> I'd be interested to hear Paul's take on this, as someone who worked
> on the related code not too long ago.  Paul?

On the one hand this is low-level detail. On the other, it is 
user-visible detail, e.g., when I use dired or 'ls' on a directory I'll 
see the symlinks. So I'd be mildly inclined to see a brief mention in 
the user manual with details as necessary in the elisp manual. The user 
manual could say something simple like 'lock files are directory entries 
whose names begin with ".#"'. If more details are needed, they could be 
in the elisp manual (e.g., MS-Windows lock names are independent of lock 
names of other systems).
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