On 13 Nov 1999, Kai Gro�johann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Greg Stark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> When I try to write to a file to which I do have write permission
>> but not permission to create other files in the directory normally
>> Emacs messages that it couldn't create a backup file but still
>> happily saves the file. I think this used to work with RCP but now
>> it's a fatal error [...]
>
> Hm. What did I do? I think I did some more agressive error condition
> testing which might have resulted in this problem. What should
> copy-file do if it can't copy? Maybe it should call signal, but with
> what arguments?
XEmacs 21.2 does:
(signal 'file-error (cons "Opening output file" (list newname)))
As a side note, with the exception of the string content, the same error
is signaled no matter what the issue when file-IO is involved.
No patch; I don't know what you want to do about it. I have not met
Emacs and XEmacs being incompatible about the symbol that is signaled
yet, but have not checked this one yet.
Daniel
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