Rich Lafferty writes:
>
> They're from emacs. They let multiple emacs processes know which files
> other ones are visiting, and 'steal' from each other if the user
> requests.
Ok, makes sense.
> Dead emacsen will leave them around sometimes;
I get one for each message I send - perhaps ^x^c to exit emacs isn't
considered a clean exit anymore? But only my mail messages leave the
files, source code or whatever seem to clean up after themselves
properly. Lisp causes me great pain, but I'll poke into emacs and see
what's going on in there.
Thanks all for the info!
Alec
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Alec Habig, Boston University Particle Astrophysics Group
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