From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stephen Berman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: make-auto-save-file-name change NEWS-worthy? Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:23:00 +0200 Message-ID: <87abk9yl4r.fsf@escher.local.home> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207304722 17340 80.91.229.12 (4 Apr 2008 10:25:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 10:25:22 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 04 12:25:55 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Jhj7K-0004tE-Fn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:25:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jhj6h-0003rU-LL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:25:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jhj6c-0003rP-Uz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:25:11 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jhj6a-0003rD-9k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:25:09 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jhj6Z-0003rA-VL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:25:08 -0400 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jhj6Z-0003n2-AR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 06:25:07 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Jhj6U-0002Rp-PB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:25:02 +0000 Original-Received: from i5387e161.versanet.de ([83.135.225.97]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:25:02 +0000 Original-Received: from Stephen.Berman by i5387e161.versanet.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:25:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: i5387e161.versanet.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:94318 Archived-At: I have some code that operates on auto-save files based on the assumption that they match the pattern ## for a particular value of buffer-name. This code stopped working, I believe after this change: 2008-03-01 Jason Rumney * files.el (make-auto-save-file-name): Encode more characters in non-file buffer names. Use url-encoding. I wasn't aware of this change and only recently discovered that it broke my code (in particular, since `*' in buffer-name is now `%2A', due to url-encoding). Since it changes a previous default, shouldn't it be mentioned in NEWS? (It isn't in GNU Emacs 23.0.60.3 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.0) of 2008-03-31 on escher; if it's been added in the mean time, sorry for the noise.) Steve Berman