From: Martin von Gagern <Martin.vGagern@gmx.net>
To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: backup-buffer-copy loops if old backup can't be deleted
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 14:18:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46CAD810.3050904@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.5021.1187647310.32220.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Hi again!
There now is a patch to fix this, provided by Ulrich Mueller.
Original URL: http://bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=128742
=================== emacs-22.1-backup-buffer.patch ===================
--- emacs-22.1.orig/lisp/files.el 2007-05-25 14:43:31.000000000 +0200
+++ emacs-22.1/lisp/files.el 2007-08-21 08:26:36.000000000 +0200
@@ -3119,9 +3119,8 @@ backup-buffer-copy (from-name to-name modes)
(set-default-file-modes ?\700)
(while (condition-case ()
(progn
- (condition-case nil
- (delete-file to-name)
- (file-error nil))
+ (and (file-exists-p to-name)
+ (delete-file to-name))
(copy-file from-name to-name nil t)
nil)
(file-already-exists t))
=============== end of emacs-22.1-backup-buffer.patch ===============
Greetings,
Martin von Gagern
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-21 12:18 UTC|newest]
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2007-08-20 22:01 ` backup-buffer-copy loops if old backup can't be deleted Martin von Gagern
[not found] ` <mailman.5021.1187647310.32220.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-08-21 12:18 ` Martin von Gagern [this message]
2007-08-21 14:37 ` martin rudalics
2007-08-21 14:51 ` Martin von Gagern
2007-08-21 15:28 ` martin rudalics
2007-08-21 19:35 ` Glenn Morris
2007-08-21 21:01 ` martin rudalics
2007-08-21 21:50 ` Glenn Morris
2007-08-22 9:13 ` Martin von Gagern
2007-08-22 9:44 ` martin rudalics
2007-08-22 9:48 ` Martin von Gagern
2007-08-22 12:40 ` martin rudalics
2007-08-22 21:37 ` Michael Schierl
2007-08-21 22:21 ` Martin von Gagern
2007-08-22 9:51 ` Ulrich Mueller
2007-08-23 20:59 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-24 7:13 ` Martin von Gagern
2007-08-24 9:10 ` martin rudalics
2007-08-25 4:07 ` Richard Stallman
2007-08-25 4:07 ` Richard Stallman
[not found] ` <mailman.5219.1187902794.32220.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2007-08-24 6:11 ` Ulrich Mueller
2007-08-20 19:58 Martin von Gagern
2007-08-21 6:50 ` martin rudalics
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