Bug#343705: emacs-snapshot: Quitting `save-buffer' can lose backup file

2006-01-07 Thread Sven Joachim
tags 343705 - moreinfo tags 343705 + pending thanks Romain Francoise wrote: Now that your patch has been applied upstream, do you consider this bug closed? You still lose the backup file, but `buffer-backed-up' is now correctly reset to nil. Actually, losing the old backup is unavoidable bec

Bug#343705: emacs-snapshot: Quitting `save-buffer' can lose backup file

2006-01-06 Thread Romain Francoise
Now that your patch has been applied upstream, do you consider this bug closed? You still lose the backup file, but `buffer-backed-up' is now correctly reset to nil. -- ,''`. : :' :Romain Francoise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> `. `' http://people.debian.org/~rfrancoise/ `- -- To

Bug#343705: emacs-snapshot: Quitting `save-buffer' can lose backup file

2005-12-19 Thread Romain Francoise
Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You did not accidentally try this in a temporary directory where Emacs > does not make backups at all, as the manual states in section 23.3.2? Why, yes, yes indeed I did. :-) I can definitely reproduce this now. -- ,''`. : :' :Romain Franc

Bug#343705: emacs-snapshot: Quitting `save-buffer' can lose backup file

2005-12-18 Thread Sven Joachim
Romain Francoise wrote: Nope, and starting Emacs with -Q disables all customizations. I know, I just wanted to make sure that you really started with -Q. :-) Which filesystem are you using? Is it a regular filesystem, or a remote NFS mount (or something similar)? A normal local file syste

Bug#343705: emacs-snapshot: Quitting `save-buffer' can lose backup file

2005-12-18 Thread Romain Francoise
Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Now I have installed your binaries, am running > GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) > of 2005-12-15 on pacem, modified by Debian > and can still see the problem. Rats. > I am really puzzled that this did not happen t

Bug#343705: emacs-snapshot: Quitting `save-buffer' can lose backup file

2005-12-18 Thread Sven Joachim
Romain Francoise wrote: For the record, why do you rebuild each snapshot? Not using unstable? In the first weeks, that was one of the reasons as I was still running sarge then; but not anymore. Now it has other reasons: following links in *Help* buffers for built-in functions and variables (

Bug#343705: emacs-snapshot: Quitting `save-buffer' can lose backup file

2005-12-18 Thread Romain Francoise
Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It's my own installation only insofar as I habitually built from > source (I did this with every weekly snapshot in the last four > months), but I didn't change anything. For the record, why do you rebuild each snapshot? Not using unstable? > I noticed

Bug#343705: emacs-snapshot: Quitting `save-buffer' can lose backup file

2005-12-18 Thread Sven Joachim
Romain Francoise wrote: Hm... it doesn't happen here. After hitting C-g, the backup file is still there, and `buffer-backed-up' is still nil in the `bar' buffer. That's how it ought to be, yes. And if you cannot reproduce the problem, that explains why upstream didn't bother (and probably fi

Bug#343705: emacs-snapshot: Quitting `save-buffer' can lose backup file

2005-12-17 Thread Romain Francoise
Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Take the following steps to reproduce the problem: > $ export LC_ALL=C > $ echo "foo" > bar ; cp bar bar~ > $ emacs -Q -f view-hello-file bar > In Emacs, in the "bar" buffer, type > M-x insert-buffer RET > C-x C-s > Emacs should display a '*Warning*'

Bug#343705: emacs-snapshot: Quitting `save-buffer' can lose backup file

2005-12-17 Thread Sven Joachim
Package: emacs-snapshot Version: 1:20051215-1 Severity: normal [ I had already reported this bug upstream four weeks ago, but got no response. And since it has not been fixed either, nobody seems to feel responsible. So I report it here, trying to draw attention to the problem. ] If saving a b