From: "Sebastien Vauban" <wxhgmqzgwmuf-geNee64TY+gS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org>
To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [ox-ascii] Export file overwrites source file
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:54:21 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <867gm9l86a.fsf@somewhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87y5ep650m.fsf@gmail.com
Nicolas,
Nicolas Goaziou wrote:
> "Sebastien Vauban" writes:
>
>> As many people, I think, I've also associated Org-mode to .txt files.
>>
>> Now, with the new exporter, if I export `a.txt' as "plain text", it overwrites
>> (without notice, BTW) my source file `a.txt': it's lost.
>>
>> Before, in such a case, the exporter noticed that I already had a file named
>> `a.txt', hence it named the exported file as `a.txt.txt', what I found to be a
>> good trade-off.
>>
>> Shouldn't that behavior be put back in the ASCII exporter?
>
> Indeed. Export should never overwrite original file, whatever the export
> back-end is.
>
> It should be fixed in master. Thank you for reporting this.
Even if I don't answer each such post, thanks to *you* for making those
changes, and so quickly.
Best regards,
Seb
--
Sebastien Vauban
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-15 9:42 [ox-ascii] Export file overwrites source file Sebastien Vauban
2013-02-15 14:11 ` Nicolas Goaziou
2013-02-15 18:54 ` Sebastien Vauban [this message]
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