Helm leaving temp files scattered around working directories

[edrex]

I keep ending up with files like this in random directories:

%2AHelm%20Help%2A#181729Q1

Not sure what action causes these to be created, but I assume it has something to do with helm and help.

Writing to the working directory without user consent is kind of a violation of trust IMO.

[TheBB]

They look like lockfiles. They can be disabled by setting create-lockfiles to nil. Thought I don't understand what business a helm buffer has doing this kind of thing. I've never seen these.

[edrex]

Huh, I think I've been seeing them with low intensity since I started using Spacemacs a few months back. I'm guessing maybe I'm visiting some functionality that you're not, due to my newbity.

I actually already have (setq-default create-lockfiles nil) in my user-config, so double weird.

[edrex]

I was wondering if maybe they were left over from before I turned off lockfiles a few weeks ago, but their creation dates are within a couple of days.

[sooheon]

I'm seeing something similar using ivy, but they look like #foo.file#. I guess these are lockfiles as well?

[edrex]

@sooheon yeah, i think those are just regular lockfiles, and the setting above should stop them being created.

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