With latest CVS emasc I upgraded to last week, I found that VM would no longer be able to "recover-file" from an auto-saved copy properly. After further investigation, VM would not proceed with recovering because the major mode (VM mode) was reset to text-mode during the recovery in normal-mode (in files.el).
I found an entry in ChangeLog made by RMS on Aug. 9th that may be related: (normal-mode): Always set some major mode. Apparently, with the current code (normal-mode) in files.el, the major mode is always set (or reset if it was something else other than default-major-mode). I reverted back to the old behavior (by checking the find-file parameter) and preserve the major mode, and it works as before. I'm not sure if this is a bug or is something that breaks the compatibility. Thanks. -- MJ --------------------- If emacs crashed, and you have the emacs process in the gdb debugger, please include the output from the following gdb commands: `bt full' and `xbacktrace'. If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file c:/Program Files/Emacs/etc/DEBUG for instructions. In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2005-12-14 on MCHANXP648L X server distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600 configured using `configure --with-gcc (3.2) --cflags -I../../GnuWin32/include' Important settings: value of $LC_ALL: nil value of $LC_COLLATE: nil value of $LC_CTYPE: nil value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil value of $LC_MONETARY: nil value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil value of $LC_TIME: nil value of $LANG: ENU locale-coding-system: chinese-big5 default-enable-multibyte-characters: t Major mode: VM Summary Minor modes in effect: mc-read-mode: t auto-image-file-mode: t encoded-kbd-mode: t tooltip-mode: t auto-compression-mode: t mouse-wheel-mode: t menu-bar-mode: t file-name-shadow-mode: t global-font-lock-mode: t font-lock-mode: t unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t utf-translate-cjk-mode: t line-number-mode: t Recent input: C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-p C-x p C-x n <escape> < C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-n C-x p . C-x n <escape> < C-x p n p M-x e m a c s - b <tab> <backspace> u <tab> <backspace> r e <tab> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> <backspace> r e p o <tab> r <tab> <return> Recent messages: Auto-saving...done Decoding base64... done Decoding base64... done Mark set [2 times] End of message 327 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Making completion list... Loading emacsbug...done _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug