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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 61fb521: Avoid false indications from Flymake i
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 61fb521: Avoid false indications from Flymake in .dir-locals.el files |
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Mon, 21 Oct 2019 16:11:10 +0300 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2019 08:42:09 -0400
>
> How/when can `fname` match "\\`\\.#" ?
>
> AFAICT lock "files" are symlinks that point nowhere so if the user tries
> to visit one of them he gets an empty buffer and a message "Symbolic
> link that points to non-existent file".
Not on MS-Windows, AFAICT.
I got the idea from bytecomp.el, btw. I just checked it and saw that
lock files are indeed visited in elisp-mode.
> IOW maybe we should have a general
>
> ("/\\.#[^/]*\\'" . fundamental-mode)
>
> entry in auto-mode-alist?
Maybe. But then why does bytecomp.el does this by file name?