From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacsclient: controlling from an application? Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 18:44:30 GMT Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1066243691 18583 80.91.224.253 (15 Oct 2003 18:48:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 18:48:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 15 20:48:07 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A9qgp-0005vQ-00 for ; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 20:48:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A9qej-0008K8-Gs for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:45:57 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!charlie.risq.qc.ca!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.204.24.42 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca Original-X-Trace: charlie.risq.qc.ca 1066243470 132.204.24.42 (Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:44:30 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2003 14:44:30 EDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:117284 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:13213 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:13213 >> I know I can set the auto-save-visited-file-name variable so that >> auto-saves write to the original file; > I recommend you don't do that. The auto-save file is written using > Emacs's internal encoding of characters, so unless you stick to pure ASCII, > you will get incorrect results. And Emacs will be all confused, thinking > that some external process is modifying the file. Oops. I don't know the idiot who write the above 4 lines ;-) but I do know he's wrong. He must have confused the variable with another one. But then again, maybe he has a point and a bug-report is in order. Stefan