From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Mihir <mihir.cs.iitd@gmail.com>
Cc: 13110@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13110: 24.1; Problem chaining archive-mode and tar-mode.
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2012 22:14:10 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv624eimj4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87boe6my7t.fsf@ubuntu.ubuntu-domain> (Mihir's message of "Fri, 07 Dec 2012 07:15:42 +0530")
> I was editing a debian binary package (.deb). Finding the file opens it
> in archive-mode, then finding the file 'data.tar.gz' opens it in
> tar-mode. I proceeded to edit the file, which produced a warning message
> reminding me to go and save the buffer for 'data.tar.gz'. However, when
> I attempted to save the buffer for 'data.tar.gz', I got an error message
> saying, "Symbol's value as variable is void: archive-ar-write-file-member".
> I think this is because of a conflict between the hooks added to
> 'write-file-functions' by archive-mode and tar-mode. I notice this is
> handled in archive-mode by this line in arc-mode.el:
There might be such a conflict, indeed (I don't know how well tarballs
inside archives are handled), but arc-mode.el does not support writing
to ar archives anyway.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-07 3:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-07 1:45 bug#13110: 24.1; Problem chaining archive-mode and tar-mode Mihir
2012-12-07 3:14 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2021-05-31 8:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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