Kevin Rodgers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It should signal an error, that the directory doesn't exist. How > does one create a buffer whose default-directory doesn't exist?
One finds a file or creates a buffer which isn't associated with a file, but has default-directory set anyway, and then has someone else: rename the directory containing the file or rename one of the directories higher up the tree or umount the filesystem holding the file or ... I don't see why I shouldn't be allowed to pipe the contents of a buffer through 'wc -w' for example to count the words in the buffer just because the buffer's default-directory doesn't exist. In the case where I first saw this bug, the buffer in question wasn't associated with a file at all. I had simply typed "C-x b tmp RET" to create a temporary buffer. I was in a '*shell*' buffer at the time, which was in the "~/tmp/foo" directory. The 'tmp' buffer which I created therefore had a default-directory of "~/tmp/foo" - a directory which I then deleted before attempting to run a shell command on the contents of the tmp buffer. Note that when checking for the existance of default-directory, we need to take the filename handlers into account. /ssh:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp might look like a bad pathname, but it makes sense to Tramp. _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug
