Re: emacs locked file problem

2016-04-26 Thread Ric Moore
On 04/25/2016 11:47 PM, Blair, Charles E III wrote: Perhaps a symptom is that, during an emacs session, the top of the window says "emacs@debian.c-blair@..." (my e-mail address) instead of "emacs@ceblair". I may have made a mistake during the installation in specifying my host name or somet

emacs locked file problem

2016-04-25 Thread Blair, Charles E III
I have just installed jessie (stable) on my laptop. The only user (apart from root) is "ceblair". I think I got emacs from aptitude, but perhaps it was already part of the default installation. Whenever I try to open or save a file, I get a message that the file is locked. I can use the "s