On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 2:21 PM Jérôme LAURENS <jerome.laur...@u-bourgogne.fr>
wrote:

> You must also compare with `ls foo-<tmpname>` which is really another
> level of complexity. Next usage is far more efficient
>
> > ls foo.pdf*
> >rm foo.pdf+TAB completion+arrow down?+enter
>
> However, if things are correctly implemented, you’d never even need to
> worry about \jobname.pdf(busy) at all, should it be from the CLI or from
> the desktop. The only purpose of \jobname.pdf(busy) is eventually to be
> deciphered, and this is far easier for most people, who only know ‘_’ for
> math subscript (I had already tested on my students for "synctex(busy)").
>
> Only tools that clean things up (« Remove aux files » ) could eventually
> manage a new file extension but that is not a requirement.
>

Hm, I think I am missing the point...
the filename of the "busy pdf " would be  hardcoded in luatex, there is no
need for '(' etc.


-- 
luigi
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