Re: [Interwiki] Web Dav

[Bayle S. <bs...@uc...>]

Alex,

When I used WikiGateway to mount CommunityWiki as a filesystem, I ran
into a problem using Emacs. Emacs insisted on creating a temporary
file when I opened a page for editing, in the same directory as the
file being edited. I forgot what the filename was;
I think is was .#actual_file_name.

I think it kept reading or writing to the temp file as I was editing the
page. Because of the latency of the connection, this made editing
so slow as to be unworkable. I don't remember if the remote wiki
accepted the weirdly-named file as a new page or if it kept rejecting
it but Emacs kept trying again. I couldn't find a way to turn off the
temp file, or even any mention of it in the emacs documentation. Since
networked filesystems have been around for awhile, I figure someone
would have run into this before, but I couldn't find the solution.

So I ended up using JEdit instead of Emacs, which worked.

Since I know you're into Emacs, I thought you should be warned
:). Does anyone know how to turn off these temp files?

-- bayle



On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 11:51:47PM +0200, Alex Schroeder wrote:
> Dennis E. Hamilton schrieb:
> > I was wondering if the Atom 1.0 API might fit better too, being closer to an
> > application level for editing and posting content on a wiki.
> 
> Maybe -- but I don't want to implement an Atom client.  I want to be
> able to grep and cat, find and touch and cp and mv, use Emacs or vi as I
> please, etc.  As far as I know, WebDAV is currently my better bet.
> 
> Alex.
>