Re: Bug in remote file save.

[storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm)]

Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> writes:

> I don't know why it complains about a keyboard macro, but it does.

It is the (beep) call in ask-user-about-supersession-threat which
issues that warning.

However, for this to happen, the executing-kbd-macro variable must be
non-nil.  This normally only happens when executing a keyboard macro.

Looking through the code, I only found two places where a package
explicitly sets the executing-kbd-macro variable; both of them in the
`calc' package.

The purpose seems to be a kludge to avoid some form of message from
save-buffer, but at the same time calc seems to install some kind of
save-buffer hook (I haven't tried to understand that part), so if that
hook is called with executing-kbd-macro set to non-nil (or the hook
function sets that variable itself), you will get the keyboard macro
error message if an error occurs during save-buffer via ange-ftp...

So my question is: Were you using (or had loaded) calc when this
happened?


> 
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Keyboard macro terminated by a command ri$
>   beep()
>   byte-code("Æ^X^H\204l^@ÇÈÉ    !\"\210Ê^ZË )\227\211^[\fU\203^^^@Ì\202#^@Í^KÎ\$
>   ask-user-about-supersession-threat("/tsreast:/user2/intouch/atstest")
>   set-buffer-modified-p(t)
>   byte-code("^H^Q\n^SÅ\f!\207" [last-coding-system-used coding-system-used file$
>   ange-ftp-write-region(1 18 "/tsreast:/user2/intouch/atstest" nil t)
>   apply(ange-ftp-write-region (1 18 "/tsreast:/user2/intouch/atstest" nil t))
>   ange-ftp-hook-function(write-region 1 18 "/tsreast:/user2/intouch/atstest" ni$
>   write-region(1 18 "/tsreast:/user2/intouch/atstest" nil t "/tsreast:/user2/in$
>   basic-save-buffer-2()
>   basic-save-buffer-1()
>   basic-save-buffer()
>   save-buffer(1)
> * call-interactively(save-buffer)
> 

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