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bug#34911: 26.1; doc about lock file names


From: Noam Postavsky
Subject: bug#34911: 26.1; doc about lock file names
Date: Sun, 19 May 2019 13:22:10 -0400
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux)

Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>>     "^\\.#\\|^#.*#$" instead of "^\\.?#"
>
> I don't think so.  More like this, I think:
>
> "^\\.?#[^#]#$\\|^\\.$\\|^\\.\\.$" or preferably this:

This will fail to match lock file names (because they don't end in "#").

> But maybe .* is better than [^#]; dunno.

Specifically, [^#] will fail for filenames that include "#".

(let ((buffer-file-name "/foo/my-#tag-list"))
  (make-auto-save-file-name)) ;=> "/foo/#my-#tag-list#"





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