Re: strange behaviour with SuSE8.0

["John E. Davis" <davis>]

Klaus Schmid <klaus.schmid@xxxxxx> wrote:
>When I edit a SLang file and make an evalbuffer
>I cannot save the file anymore ('error writing...').

Is the reproducible with the simplest such files?

>Looking on the disk I find an obviously automatically in the
>background generated file:
>
>lrwxrwxrwx    1 ks       users           8 Mai 17 20:08 .#xyz.sl -> 
>ks@.1558

This is the lock file that jed uses to indicate that the file is being
edited.  This file should vanish if you kill the buffer or save the
file.

>If I delete this one, I can edit and save the SLang file again.

Strange.

>Is this behaviour by design (SusSE8.0)?
>How can I modify this?

Are you using the version of slang distributed with SuSE?  If so, try
using the one that I distribute.  Both SuSE and Redhat distribute
modified (and broken) versions of slang.

Thanks,
--John

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