From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: rms@gnu.org
Cc: 2137@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: bug#2137: 23.0.60; Saving Rmail buffer does not show the "Saving file ..." message
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 20:35:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv3aex62t7.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports__12382.4315997355$1233596209$gmane$org@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1LTl7F-00057o-7k@fencepost.gnu.org> (Richard M. Stallman's message of "Sun, 01 Feb 2009 17:48:37 -0500")
> In an Rmail buffer, type "C-x C-s" to save it: you will almost never
> see the usual "Saving file FOO..." message, because buffer-soze,
> called by save-buffer, returns the size of the current message, not of
> the entire message collection.
> The clean way to fix this is with something like `buffer-swapped-with'.
> I did not remember the existence of this feature when I recommended
> implementing `buffer-swapped-with', so I can't really say "I told you
> so." But there is a general tendency that these sorts of features
> need to be checked and acted on in various places in the code, and
> most of them don't have any hooks.
This problem at least simply points to a current bug in save-buffer.
Maybe with buffer-swapped-with you could work around the bug rather than
fixing it. Or even fail to see that it's a general bug rather than
a problem with buffer-swapped-with. I'm not sure it's a benefit.
Stefan
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2009-01-31 19:13 ` bug#2137: 23.0.60; Saving Rmail buffer does not show the "Saving file ..." message Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <E1LTl7F-00057o-7k@fencepost.gnu.org>
2009-02-02 1:35 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
[not found] ` <jwv3aex62t7.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org>
2009-02-02 21:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-03 9:59 ` Richard M Stallman
[not found] ` <E1LUI48-0004DQ-9b@fencepost.gnu.org>
2009-02-03 19:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <umyd4v9bs.fsf@gnu.org>
2009-02-03 4:12 ` Glenn Morris
2009-02-03 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-03 21:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-04 4:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-04 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-04 18:27 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-02-04 19:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-04 20:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-04 23:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-05 16:39 ` Richard M Stallman
2009-02-04 20:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-02-03 21:29 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <jwvk587p5y5.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org>
2009-02-04 4:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <u7i46vnun.fsf@gnu.org>
2009-02-04 19:46 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-02-07 10:35 ` bug#2137: marked as done (23.0.60; Saving Rmail buffer does not show the "Saving file ..." message) Emacs bug Tracking System
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