From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug: using remember can cause data corruption in other buffers
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 04:40:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9F6B930E-B6C7-4C51-AEFA-B3BAA6E318FF@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20524da70903252013k59363813xc0e15d66efd0267b@mail.gmail.com>
On Mar 26, 2009, at 4:13 AM, Samuel Wales wrote:
> Hi Carsten,
>
> The following form in org-remember.el appears to set the global value.
>
> (setq auto-save-visited-file-name t)
>
> This is the right thing for remember buffers, but it should be
> buffer-local. It could lead to data corruption in other buffers if
> you make changes that you don't intend to be permanent.
>
> I think that
>
> (set (make-variable-buffer-local ...) t)
>
> would fix it.
Applied, thanks.
>
> This might or might not also fix a bug where emacs thinks that another
> process is locking the file that is currently being edited. I don't
> know why.
>
> Once this is fixed, I recommend that everybody who used git within the
> last day or so, and I think set the remember directory
Yes, this wil only have caused a problem for people who actually set
the backup
directory.
Thank you.
- Carsten
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2009-03-26 3:13 bug: using remember can cause data corruption in other buffers Samuel Wales
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