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From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Walter Esling <wtresling@gmail.com>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Building 24.3 Problem
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:22:33 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <olr46wgwba.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA7vtkP3zGLM_d66AwtXpkiD3-QLBsX9Tkx_Hnm78R0hmUgVAg@mail.gmail.com> (Walter Esling's message of "Fri, 21 Feb 2014 08:09:00 -0600")

Walter Esling wrote:

> The build completed without error and emacs runs, but it is unable to save
> modified buffers. The message comes up "Saving file ...", but the file is
> never saved and buffer is left modified.

Does this problem still happen if you start emacs as "emacs -Q"?

If not, crystal ball says that you are adding something to
write-file-functions, or some other hook, in your .emacs, which returns
nil:

C-h v write-file-functions

   List of functions to be called before writing out a buffer to a file.
   If one of them returns non-nil, the file is considered already written[...]



  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-02-21 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-21 14:09 Building 24.3 Problem Walter Esling
2014-02-21 18:08 ` Andreas Röhler
2014-02-21 18:22 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2014-02-21 18:23   ` Glenn Morris
2014-02-21 20:03     ` walter esling

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