Hi David, "Loyall, David" wrote: > But how do I, also an Emacs newbie, know that? Well, lock files aren't > peculiar to Emacs. Have a look: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_locking#Lock_files > > :) > > How do you remove the lock? Well, first close all your Emacs buffers (on any > 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 the file in an > Emacs buffer, than the lock is stale. Manually delete it. (Alternatively, > Emacs has some user interface for doing this. It is described in that info > page ^^^.)
When you open f.org, if there is an #f.org# file, Emacs will let you know: You should recover this file is displayed in the echo area. Then, simply type M-x recover-this-file, and answer: - yes, to overwrite f.org with that auto-saved version - no, to simply delete #f.org# FYI, I've customized the color `recover-this-file' with an orange background in order to clearly see that Emacs has something to tell me, even if I overlooked the msg in the echo area: ... (recover-this-file ((,class (:background "white" :background "#FF3F3F")))) Best regards, Seb -- Sebastien Vauban
