From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "T. V. Raman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Reverting *Locate* buffers. Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:55:04 -0700 Message-ID: <17569.64920.191861.355581@localhost.localdomain> References: <200606260327.k5Q3Rfpd013691@jane.dms.auburn.edu> <853bdsmkey.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <200606280158.k5S1wJCu004606@jane.dms.auburn.edu> Reply-To: raman@users.sf.net NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151466927 16758 80.91.229.2 (28 Jun 2006 03:55:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 03:55:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: pbreton@cs.umb.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org, raman@users.sourceforge.net Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 28 05:55:23 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FvR98-0007W6-AN for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 05:55:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FvR97-0000pc-S2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 23:55:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FvR8v-0000o1-C4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 23:55:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FvR8t-0000ng-JF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 23:55:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FvR8t-0000nd-Bg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 23:55:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [204.127.192.84] (helo=rwcrmhc14.comcast.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FvRL7-000328-JR; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 00:07:45 -0400 Original-Received: from labrador (c-67-180-167-124.hsd1.ca.comcast.net[67.180.167.124]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc14) with ESMTP id <20060628035505m1400num7te>; Wed, 28 Jun 2006 03:55:05 +0000 Original-Received: by labrador (Postfix, from userid 500) id 83D94F8C0A0; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 20:55:04 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: teirllm@dms.auburn.edu In-Reply-To: <200606280158.k5S1wJCu004606@jane.dms.auburn.edu> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.50.49 x-attribution: tvr X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:56238 Archived-At: While on the error message regarding tramp, I've found that tramp being around causes *a lot* of recursive expand file calls --- try running edebug on anything that calls expand-file-name to see what I mean. Basically, tramp should only fire on the "head" of the path being expanded -- at present it appears to fire for *each* path component. >>>>> "Luc" == Luc Teirlinck writes: Luc> David Kastrup wrote: In this case, one option would be Luc> to try (let ((default-directory "/sudo::")) ... or Luc> (depending on the setup of the system) (let Luc> ((default-directory "/su::")) ... around rerunning the Luc> database. Luc> Luc> Using the latter, I got the following error message Luc> while trying to revert the *Locate* buffer (cut and Luc> pasted from *Messages*): Luc> Luc> Loading tramp... [4 times] expand-file-name: Recursive Luc> load: Luc> "/usr/local/share/emacs/22.0.50/lisp/net/tramp.elc", Luc> "/usr/local/share/emacs/22.0.50/lisp/net/tramp.elc", Luc> "/usr/local/share/emacs/22.0.50/lisp/net/tramp.elc", Luc> "/usr/local/share/emacs/22.0.50/lisp/net/tramp.elc", Luc> "/usr/local/share/emacs/22.0.50/lisp/net/tramp.elc" Luc> Luc> The *Locate* buffer was not reverted. Luc> Luc> Sincerely, Luc> Luc> Luc. -- Best Regards, --raman Email: raman@users.sf.net WWW: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/ AIM: emacspeak GTalk: tv.raman.tv@gmail.com PGP: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.asc Google: tv+raman IRC: irc://irc.freenode.net/#emacs