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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: VC and select-safe-coding-system
Date: Sun, 08 Sep 2002 20:22:08 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E17oCJc-0002hG-00@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1031486626.430.24.camel@eagle> (message from Andre Spiegel on 08 Sep 2002 14:03:43 +0200)

    I've been told that on a file under VC control, a user abort in
    select-safe-coding-system can lose data.  A few days ago, I asked on
    this list whether anyone could tell me the precise circumstances when
    this happens.  I got no reply.

I have seen this happen, too.  What happened, I think,
is that the file had already been renamed to a backup file.
So there was no longer any file with the visited name.

To see this problem, I think you need to set vc-make-backup-files to t.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-09  0:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-08 12:03 VC and select-safe-coding-system Andre Spiegel
2002-09-09  0:22 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2002-09-09 14:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-09-09 23:34   ` Richard Stallman
2002-09-10 19:53     ` Andre Spiegel

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