From: Keshav Kini <keshav.kini@gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 18928@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18928: 24.4; viper-save-setting produces invalid configuration file
Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2020 03:12:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5829dbcb-5f0d-c195-3ff5-614fae34fbda@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h7p1lud9.fsf@gnus.org>
On 12/4/20 2:48 AM, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> Keshav Kini <keshav.kini@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Steps to reproduce:
>>
>> 1) Run `emacs -Q`.
>> 2) Execute the following elisp in the scratch buffer:
>>
>> (require 'viper-util)
>> (setq x 3)
>> (viper-save-setting 'x nil "/tmp/.viper")
>> (setq x 4)
>> (viper-save-setting 'x nil "/tmp/.viper")
>>
>> Expected result:
>>
>> /tmp/.viper should contain "(setq x '4)"
>>
>> Actual result:
>>
>> /tmp/.viper contains "(setq x '4 '3)"
>
> (This bug report unfortunately got no response at the time.)
>
> Thanks for the clear recipe. I've now fixed this particular error in
> Emacs 28, but as you point out, this really should be fixed in a
> different way -- using Customize would be ideal, but there's always
> backwards compatibility issues.
Indeed. Thanks for the fix!
-Keshav
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2014-11-02 20:24 bug#18928: 24.4; viper-save-setting produces invalid configuration file Keshav Kini
2020-12-04 10:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-04 11:12 ` Keshav Kini [this message]
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