Hi! Sorry for the delay in replies. I was super busy yesterday, last night, and this morning. Ok! Let’s get to it:
1) I’m not going to reproduce the bug because it’s super annoying for me to try to get rid of because I have to kill extra buffers to do it, restart emacs, fix the git repo etc…and I don’t have time for that right now. I just have a few minutes before lunch so here goes: 2) My help file includes examples of commands, such as: * C-x C-q - In dired, lets you enter edit mode to rename files * C-u C-c C-q - Re-aligns tags (this isn’t a direct quote I’m just making this up to show you examples. 3) In one of the headers, it looked something like this: * C-c C-c on [/] to update done items in todo list. That [/] just like that was creating a backup file on every save named .#emacshelp.org# —> summer@summer.local.23434:882343 (those are made up numbers but it was always random and looked something like that in the ls -la command in terminal.) Since I regularly add notes to my file, I also use Magit to save a backup copy (M-x g). But whenever I did that, it would ask if I wanted to save emacshelp.org. Obviously it was being affected by the backup file (which was never open in a buffer, it just was “there” in the directory). An example of Magit interaction for adding/committing changes to that file would look something like this: (from emacshelp.org file) 1) M-x g 2) Minibuffer: Do you want to save emacshelp.org? Y/n/etc… 3) s 4) Minibuffer: Do you want to save emacshelp.org? Y/n/etc… 5) c c 6) Minibuffer: Do you want to save emacshelp.org? Y/n/etc… 7) Write commit message 8) C-c C-c 9) Minibuffer: Do you want to save emacshelp.org? Y/n/etc… 10) q 11) Minibuffer: Do you want to save emacshelp.org? Y/n/etc… You get the idea. Every single thing I did in Magit would ask me this. My file (the original - emacshelp.org) was saved with C-x C-s AND even C-x s to save all files. But it didn’t matter how I answered that question, it would keep asking it no matter what. No matter what I did, it kept asking me that question, over and over and over again. Because of that “backup” file. Note: This is behaviour which *only* happened with this single file, not with any other file I use. Finally, putting = = around [/] in my notes to produce: =[/]= escaped that behaviour. It no longer does that. It took me an hour of rebuilding my file line by line to figure out *why* this was happening, but that was the line and that was the exact problem. I don’t know why it did that but I *suspect* (and remember I’m a personal assistant, not a coder) that since URLs start and end with [] in org-mode, it may be trying to look for some sort of url fetch thing? Like it’s a broken link it’s trying to figure out? Hence the port number in the backup file name? I honestly don’t know and I’m not the person to ask. 🙃 That’s all I can say about it. That’s all the info that I have. I hope that I was more clear this time. 🙃 TYSM for trying to help and again sorry for the delayed response. Summer. > On Sep 7, 2023, at 12:12, Ihor Radchenko <yanta...@posteo.net> wrote: > > Samuel Wales <samolog...@gmail.com> writes: > >> lock file? in 27 (info "(emacs) Interlocking") strangely does not >> mention .# but it could be the concept in question. > > #... is a backup file. There is nothing wrong or surprising about it. > > However, the bug report is not clear enough for me to try reproducing > things on my side. I am even not sure what exactly is the problem - is > it creating the backup (which is normal) or is it save confirmation > dialogue? > > That's why I asked more details. > > -- > Ihor Radchenko // yantar92, > Org mode contributor, > Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>. > Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>, > or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
