Please answer by e-mail since I don't read this news group.

I need to check in a shell script if any files in
path/* (recursively) have been edited and not saved.

The documentation that I have mentions that Emacs records
after the first modification in a special directory reserved
for this purpose.... where is this special place, can I read
the info there?

I can not rely on .~* or #*# or *.BAK files existing...

any clues, hints, solutions?

Thanks-
jill

That directory should contain files which look something like this under
dired:

  /home/aipapp/gnu/emacs-18.57/lock:
  total 99
  -rw-rw-rw-  1 moore    aip    5 Feb 10 14:09 !local!jimmy!atari!vi.ref
  -rw-rw-rw-  1 moore    aip    5 Feb 10 14:09 !local!jimmy!atari!vi.ref.nl
  -rw-rw-rw-  1 moore    aip    6 Feb 29 21:47 !local!jimmy!xtank!Src!newfile.c
  -rw-rw-rw-  1 moore    aip    6 Feb 29 21:50 !local!jimmy!xtank!Src!x11.c

Do any of you find the current behavior desirable?  I find it very
frustrating, because I invariably toss some random type-ahead at the
y-or-n-p and yes-or-no-p prompts that come from the auto-save-related code.
Since these prompts are only there *sometimes*, there's little chance of
being able to anticipate them, which means that doing revert-buffer means
I have to stop cold until I figure out what it's going to do.

Brad Keister
Department of Physics
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
(412) 268-2772 (office)
(412) 681-0648 (FAX)

revert-buffer:
Replace the buffer text with the text of the visited file on disk.
This undoes all changes since the file was visited or saved.
If latest auto-save file is more recent than the visited file,
asks user whether to use that instead.
First argument (optional) non-nil means don't offer to use auto-save file.
 This is the prefix arg when called interactively.

Second argument (optional) non-nil means don't ask for confirmation at all.

If revert-buffer-function's value is non-nil, it is called to do the work.

;;

The usual delete-function is bound to the DEL key on the numeric keypad.
Is it possible to make EMACS believe it's bound to the delete key instead?

Just doing global-set-key sort of works, but not very well since e.g. GNUS
isn't fooled.

Thank you,

When I issue shell-command (M-!) to do a DOS command, I get
  Opening output file: access denied, d:/
Suspecting that this has something to do with DOS options, I've tried
varying nearly everything in my config.sys, but all this seems to
achieve is (under certain conditions)
  Opening output file: file not found, D:
instead of the other message.  Here's my config.sys:

DEVICE=C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE
DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
device=c:\mouse.sys
DEVICE=C:\DOS\ramdrive.sys 512 512 64 /e
STACKS=0,0
BREAK=ON
BUFFERS=30
FILES=30
SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\DOS\ /E:256 /p
DEVICE=C:\DOS\smartdrv.sys 1024 512
DEVICE=C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS
DOS=HIGH

Here's my autoexec.bat:

@ECHO OFF
REM SET COMSPEC=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM
VERIFY ON
PATH C:\DOS;C:\RAMPGMS;C:\ZTC\BIN;C:\SP;C:\WINDOWS;C:\TOOLS;C:\UNIX;C:\UTIL;C:\A TI;C:\;C:\NU
SET NU=C:\NU
SET INCLUDE=C:\ZTC\INCLUDE;C:\ZTC\TOOLS\INCLUDE
SET LIB=C:\ZTC\LIB;C:\ZTC\PLIB
SET INIT=C:\ZTC
SET TAB=4
SET TMP=D:\
SET PCO=C:\PCO\PCO.CFG
PROMPT $e[7m$P$G
VER
REM set TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
SET TEMP=D:
SET TEXFONTS=C:\usabooks\pixel\dpi
set TERM=ibmpc
set HOME=c:\etc
set DEMACS_KEEP=1024
set SHELL=c:\command.com
set GO32TMP=c:\tmp
C:\DOS\MODE LPT1,,P
C:\DOS\MODE CON LINES=50
rem SHARE
rem WIN
cls