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bug#31908: Save file locks in centralized location
From: |
Robert Pluim |
Subject: |
bug#31908: Save file locks in centralized location |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Jun 2018 10:34:50 +0200 |
Radon Rosborough <radon.neon@gmail.com> writes:
>> If users had their own custom location for locks, surely the locking
>> would cease to have any significant purpose [...] The utility would
>> be reduced to preventing you from simultaneously using multiple
>> separate emacs instances to edit/write a given file.
>
> I run a single-user system; preventing concurrent edits is the only
> purpose of the locking mechanism for me. This feature would hardly
> remove "any significant purpose" from it.
If implemented, this feature would almost certainly be off by default,
so no existing users would end up being surprised.
Robert