[NTG-context] context --purgeall filename does not delete all temporary files

Hans Hagen j.hagen at xs4all.nl
Thu May 21 15:57:08 CEST 2020


On 5/21/2020 10:43 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Thu, 21 May 2020, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> `context --purgeall filename` behaves differently from `context 
>> --purgeall`.
>>
>> `context --purgeall` deletes all files with the name `*-temp-*`. I 
>> would have thought that `context --purgeall filename` will delete all 
>> files with the name `\jobname-temp-*` but it does not.
>>
>> Is there a way to delete the `\jobname-temp-*` files without requiring 
>> an extra `context --purgeall` run? This is needed for deleting extra 
>> files by `t-filter` module or deleting extra files generated by 
>> automatic EPS to PDF conversion (with 
>> figures.cachepaths.prefix="\jobname-temp"), etc.
> 
> As an aside, I also noticed that in both mkiv and lmtx, mtx-context.lua has
> 
> local extra_runfiles = {
>      "^l_m_t_x_.-%.pdf$",
> }
> 
> but graph-inc.lua has
> 
> local defaultprefix     = "m_k_i_v_"
> 
> So, the default generated files are never deleted.
i can add it ... originally that was for the temporary pdf jobname i think

Hans


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