From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Loyall, David" Subject: Re: org-check.org confusion Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:15:21 +0000 Message-ID: References: <871ub9olre@ch.ristopher.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:40457) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ULha4-0004dI-QB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:15:32 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ULha0-0006nv-FP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:15:28 -0400 Received: from mx01.ne.gov ([164.119.247.101]:34768) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ULha0-0006n2-Bc for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 29 Mar 2013 18:15:24 -0400 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Lawrence Bottorff , "emacs-orgmode@gnu.org" Well, to access the documentation about this: M-: (info "(emacs)Interlocking") ...This tells us that the file you saw in the directory is a lock. The solution is to remove the lock, then try again. But how do I, also an Emacs newbie, know that? Well, lock files aren't pec= uliar to Emacs. Have a look: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_locking#Loc= k_files :) How do you remove the lock? Well, first close all your Emacs buffers (on a= ny machine, anywhere) that are pointed at the org-check.org file. Then see= if the lock file is still there. If it's there, and you're not editing th= e file in an Emacs buffer, than the lock is stale. Manually delete it. (A= lternatively, Emacs has some user interface for doing this. It is describe= d in that info page ^^^.) Incidentally, the #org-check.org# file is some sort of automatically saved = backup. Hope this helps, --Dave p.s. I have no idea what org-check.org is, but I presume that some org proc= ess normally writes to it, and in your case, it respected the lock, but did= n't prompt you, or it did prompt you and you gave some answer other than "s= teal the lock". --------- From: emacs-orgmode-bounces+david.loyall=3Dnebraska.gov@gnu.org [mailto:ema= cs-orgmode-bounces+david.loyall=3Dnebraska.gov@gnu.org] On Behalf Of Lawren= ce Bottorff Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013 15:42 PM To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Subject: Re: [O] org-check.org confusion Any details about how this is involved with this issue? I have an #org-chec= k.org# in this directory too. Being totally a beginner with elisp hacking, = I don't know how to trace out this behavior. On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:32 PM, Christopher Schmidt wrote: "Loyall, David" writes: > Dear orgmode users: what does that represent? =A0 =A0 (info "(emacs)Interlocking") =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Christopher