[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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