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From: Summer Emacs <summeremacs@summerstar.me>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Possible File Saving Bug with [/]?
Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2023 16:42:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4705CCD7-F1ED-489B-9D17-EA6FE0B23BCD@summerstar.me> (raw)

Hi!

I’m not sure if this is a bug or not, but after hunting down the problem for an hour (and finding it), I felt that I needed to report this just in case.

I have a .org file which is just a list of Emacs commands I like to keep handy to refer to (navigation, selection, commands in some modes etc…) One of these had help about the [/] command for a header for a list. However, because I had [/] and no numbers in it (it was just an example to show me how to do it if I forgot), it kept saving a backup copy of that file anytime that I saved it, and kept that backup “alive” to track. The name of the regular file is emacshelp.org, and the file it kept creating in my directory was .#emacshelp.org#  -> summer@summer.localhost.randomnumberhere:randomportnumberhere

This was intensely annoying because anytime that I did a Magit stage and commit, it would keep asking me if I wanted to save the file - every time I would input a command in Magit for every stage/commit etc…

Just adding = = around the [/] removed this behaviour.

Again: Since it took me an hour to figure out, as was frustrating as hell, to find the “bug" (I don’t know how you programmers do this for a living…), I figured I’d report it.

I’m running Emacs on a MacBook Pro (M series). I doubt it has something to do with the OS, but please ask if you need more info.

I’m sorry to spam everyone if this is already a known behaviour. 
Emacs Version: d12frosted’s emacs plus, 30.0.50
Org version: 9.6.7

Thanks!

Summer Emacs

next             reply	other threads:[~2023-09-05 14:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-09-05 14:42 Summer Emacs [this message]
2023-09-06  8:34 ` Possible File Saving Bug with [/]? Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-06 19:57   ` Samuel Wales
2023-09-07 10:12     ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-07 10:40       ` Summer Emacs
2023-09-07 10:49         ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-07 10:55           ` Summer Emacs
2023-09-07 11:19             ` Ihor Radchenko

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