Re: context --purgeall filename does not delete all temporary files

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

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.

Aditya
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