Re: Hidden symlinks, sshfs, and svn

[Nikolaj Schumacher]

"Tavian Barnes" <tavianator@gmail.com> wrote:

> I've noticed that emacs creates hidden symlinks when unsaved files are
> left open long enough (regardless of auto-save-mode) named something
> like '.#<filename>' and pointing to something like
> '<username>@<host>.<domain>.<PID of emacs>:<some long number>'.
>
> [SNIP]
>
> - From an informative standpoint, what purpose do these links have?

I believe they are used to "lock" the file to prevent editing the file
from different emacs instances.

> - How can I tell emacs not to create them?  Or, is there a better way
> to deal with this problem?

I've never had problems with svn.  I have the following in my
~/.subversion/config, so that might help:

[miscellany]
global-ignores = \#*\# .*~ *~ .\#*



regards,
Nikolaj Schumacher