From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Patch] url-cookie-write-file saves versioned backups Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:10:03 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87irkdrb06.fsf@x3y2z1.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156803286 3953 80.91.229.2 (28 Aug 2006 22:14:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 22:14:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Aug 29 00:14:34 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 1GHpNJ-00041C-9B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:14:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GHpNI-0008SN-LG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:14:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GHpJ3-0004OZ-2A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:10:09 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GHpJ1-0004Ns-Ct for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:10:08 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GHpJ1-0004Ng-1l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:10:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GHpS3-0003uG-75 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:19:27 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1GHpIx-00029Q-Rg; Mon, 28 Aug 2006 18:10:03 -0400 Original-To: Diane Murray In-reply-to: <87irkdrb06.fsf@x3y2z1.net> (message from Diane Murray on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 01:53:45 +0200) 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:59033 Archived-At: Versioned backups of the cookies file are being saved (contrary to the intent of the last changes made to url-cookie.el in revision 1.18), which causes `backup-buffer' to ask for confirmation to delete those excess backup files. Is that necessarily wrong? Additionally, the error "Local variables list is not properly terminated" occurs when opening the cookies file. The following patch corrects this. We should certainly fix that one. Would someone install that part?