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

Aditya Mahajan adityam at umich.edu
Thu May 21 17:15:25 CEST 2020


On Thu, 21 May 2020, Hans Hagen wrote:

> 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

Thanks!
Aditya


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