From: Kelly Dean <kellydeanch@yahoo.com>
To: 11331@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11331: Emacs unnecessarily leaves behind stale auto-save files after crash recovery
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 12:30:42 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1335295842.80989.YahooMailClassic@web121501.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> (raw)
I'm using Emacs on X on Debian 6 Stable. emacs-version says GNU Emacs 23.2.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.20.0) of 2010-12-11 on raven, modified by Debian.
Steps to reproduce the bug:
Open any writeable file in Emacs, modify it, and run do-auto-save.
kill -9 Emacs.
Restart Emacs, load the file, and run recover-this-file.
Save the file before the auto-save timeout.
Notice that the auto-save file remains, permanently, unless the buffer is later modified (which might not ever happen) and another auto-save operation overwrites the old auto-save file (which won't happen even if the buffer is modified, if the user saves the file before the auto-save timeout).
Desired behavior: delete the auto-save file (only if auto-save-visited-file-name is nil, of course) when the file is saved after being recovered, since the auto-save file no longer contains data which hasn't been saved to the primary file.
next reply other threads:[~2012-04-24 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-24 19:30 Kelly Dean [this message]
2012-06-02 21:34 ` bug#11331: Emacs unnecessarily leaves behind stale auto-save files after crash recovery Kelly Dean
2021-07-16 11:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-07-30 12:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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.gnu.org/software/emacs/
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1335295842.80989.YahooMailClassic@web121501.mail.ne1.yahoo.com \
--to=kellydeanch@yahoo.com \
--cc=11331@debbugs.gnu.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.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).