From: Nicolas Goaziou <n.goaziou@gmail.com>
To: Sebastien Vauban
<public-wxhgmqzgwmuf-geNee64TY+gS+FvcfC7Uqw@plane.gmane.org>
Cc: public-emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@plane.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [ox-ascii] Export file overwrites source file
Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 15:11:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y5ep650m.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86obflrjzs.fsf@somewhere.org> (Sebastien Vauban's message of "Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:42:31 +0100")
Hello,
"Sebastien Vauban"
<wxhgmqzgwmuf-geNee64TY+gS+FvcfC7Uqw@public.gmane.org> 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.
Regards,
--
Nicolas Goaziou
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-15 14:12 UTC|newest]
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 [this message]
2013-02-15 18:54 ` Sebastien Vauban
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
List information: https://www.orgmode.org/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=87y5ep650m.fsf@gmail.com \
--to=n.goaziou@gmail.com \
--cc=public-emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@plane.gmane.org \
--cc=public-wxhgmqzgwmuf-geNee64TY+gS+FvcfC7Uqw@plane.gmane.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs/org-mode.git
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).