From: Matt Armstrong <matt@rfc20.org>
To: Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com>
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, 46397@debbugs.gnu.org, craven@gmx.net,
Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu>
Subject: bug#46397: 27.1; Cannot delete buffer pointing to a file in a path that includes a file
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 16:36:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sg4t1hfr.fsf@rfc20.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2702033.1615745013@olgas.newt.com>
Bill Wohler <wohler@newt.com> writes:
> Matt Armstrong <matt@rfc20.org> wrote:
>
>> Mike Kupfer <mkupfer@alum.berkeley.edu> writes:
>>
>> > I'm not sure I completely understanding the logic behind those calls to
>> > unlock-buffer, but I'll take a stab at it.
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> Thanks for those analysis Mike. They make sense to me.
>
> This code was likely originally written in the 80s and well before my
> time in any case, and it isn't code that I've worked with. I concur with
> Mike's analysis as well, and thank him for diving in.
Yes, it looked like old code to me as well. I suspect that the explicit
`unlock-buffer' call could be eliminated by rewriting this code with the
primitives Emacs provides now. E.g. a call to `(set-buffer-modified-p
nil)' would call `unlock-buffer' implicitly, if necessary, and might
more clearly convey the problem the original author was trying to solve.
In any case, I don't intend to pursue this further.
> Since I'm reading this out of context, I don't understand it :-). I
> think that if an MH-E user, including me, got the prompt that Mike
> suggested, she would be pretty confused. If the issue at hand arises, it
> would be preferable to speak in the MH-E user's language, such as: Error
> recycling draft buffer, discard or keep? [keep].
The currently proposed solution is to demote file level errors from
`unlock-error' to warnings. I suspect that Emacs had no standard way to
display warnings in the 80s either!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-03-17 23:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-09 9:47 bug#46397: 27.1; Cannot delete buffer pointing to a file in a path that includes a file Peter
2021-02-09 23:47 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-10 0:23 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-10 15:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-10 19:23 ` Paul Eggert
2021-02-10 19:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-10 22:39 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-12 7:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-12 9:36 ` Paul Eggert
2021-02-12 11:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-12 23:59 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-13 8:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-11 22:14 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-12 2:20 ` Paul Eggert
2021-02-12 7:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-13 1:15 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-13 1:26 ` Paul Eggert
2021-02-13 8:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-13 8:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-14 0:49 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-14 19:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-14 22:16 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-15 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-16 0:49 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-16 1:55 ` Paul Eggert
2021-02-16 15:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-16 11:53 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-02-22 19:24 ` bug#46397: [PATCH] " Matt Armstrong
2021-02-19 19:10 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-19 19:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-19 21:46 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-20 9:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-21 0:36 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-21 23:43 ` Mike Kupfer
2021-02-22 1:42 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-03-14 18:03 ` Bill Wohler
2021-03-17 23:36 ` Matt Armstrong [this message]
2021-02-24 17:37 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-24 18:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-01 16:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-05 22:19 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-03-06 9:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-06 23:39 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-03-07 2:50 ` Paul Eggert
2021-03-07 5:57 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-19 19:45 ` Paul Eggert
2021-02-19 21:52 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-03-08 2:18 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-03-11 14:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-17 23:49 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-03-17 23:51 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-03-20 10:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-03-22 1:43 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-03-27 9:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-10 0:26 ` Matt Armstrong
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