From: Summer Emacs <summeremacs@summerstar.me>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Possible File Saving Bug with [/]?
Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2023 12:40:40 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A6B3663-5821-4C78-80FF-B4DCFF9A056B@summerstar.me> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bkeepa01.fsf@localhost>
Hi! Sorry for the delay in replies. I was super busy yesterday, last night, and this morning. Ok! Let’s get to it:
1) I’m not going to reproduce the bug because it’s super annoying for me to try to get rid of because I have to kill extra buffers to do it, restart emacs, fix the git repo etc…and I don’t have time for that right now. I just have a few minutes before lunch so here goes:
2) My help file includes examples of commands, such as:
* C-x C-q - In dired, lets you enter edit mode to rename files
* C-u C-c C-q - Re-aligns tags (this isn’t a direct quote I’m just making this up to show you examples.
3) In one of the headers, it looked something like this:
* C-c C-c on [/] to update done items in todo list.
That [/] just like that was creating a backup file on every save named .#emacshelp.org# —> summer@summer.local.23434:882343 (those are made up numbers but it was always random and looked something like that in the ls -la command in terminal.)
Since I regularly add notes to my file, I also use Magit to save a backup copy (M-x g). But whenever I did that, it would ask if I wanted to save emacshelp.org. Obviously it was being affected by the backup file (which was never open in a buffer, it just was “there” in the directory).
An example of Magit interaction for adding/committing changes to that file would look something like this: (from emacshelp.org file)
1) M-x g
2) Minibuffer: Do you want to save emacshelp.org? Y/n/etc…
3) s
4) Minibuffer: Do you want to save emacshelp.org? Y/n/etc…
5) c c
6) Minibuffer: Do you want to save emacshelp.org? Y/n/etc…
7) Write commit message
8) C-c C-c
9) Minibuffer: Do you want to save emacshelp.org? Y/n/etc…
10) q
11) Minibuffer: Do you want to save emacshelp.org? Y/n/etc…
You get the idea. Every single thing I did in Magit would ask me this. My file (the original - emacshelp.org) was saved with C-x C-s AND even C-x s to save all files. But it didn’t matter how I answered that question, it would keep asking it no matter what. No matter what I did, it kept asking me that question, over and over and over again. Because of that “backup” file.
Note: This is behaviour which *only* happened with this single file, not with any other file I use.
Finally, putting = = around [/] in my notes to produce: =[/]= escaped that behaviour. It no longer does that. It took me an hour of rebuilding my file line by line to figure out *why* this was happening, but that was the line and that was the exact problem.
I don’t know why it did that but I *suspect* (and remember I’m a personal assistant, not a coder) that since URLs start and end with [] in org-mode, it may be trying to look for some sort of url fetch thing? Like it’s a broken link it’s trying to figure out? Hence the port number in the backup file name? I honestly don’t know and I’m not the person to ask. 🙃
That’s all I can say about it. That’s all the info that I have. I hope that I was more clear this time. 🙃 TYSM for trying to help and again sorry for the delayed response.
Summer.
> On Sep 7, 2023, at 12:12, Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:
>
> Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> lock file? in 27 (info "(emacs) Interlocking") strangely does not
>> mention .# but it could be the concept in question.
>
> #... is a backup file. There is nothing wrong or surprising about it.
>
> However, the bug report is not clear enough for me to try reproducing
> things on my side. I am even not sure what exactly is the problem - is
> it creating the backup (which is normal) or is it save confirmation
> dialogue?
>
> That's why I asked more details.
>
> --
> Ihor Radchenko // yantar92,
> Org mode contributor,
> Learn more about Org mode at <https://orgmode.org/>.
> Support Org development at <https://liberapay.com/org-mode>,
> or support my work at <https://liberapay.com/yantar92>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-09-07 10:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-09-05 14:42 Possible File Saving Bug with [/]? Summer Emacs
2023-09-06 8:34 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-06 19:57 ` Samuel Wales
2023-09-07 10:12 ` Ihor Radchenko
2023-09-07 10:40 ` Summer Emacs [this message]
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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