From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Building 24.3 Problem Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:22:33 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1393006957 28347 80.91.229.3 (21 Feb 2014 18:22:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 18:22:37 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Walter Esling Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Feb 21 19:22:46 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WGukI-0006Jh-1C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 19:22:46 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46345 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WGukH-0002tK-DH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:22:45 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59503) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WGuk6-0002sM-Um for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:22:35 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WGuk6-0002CU-1w for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:22:34 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:47184) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WGuk5-0002CP-Uc for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:22:33 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WGuk5-0004ve-HO; Fri, 21 Feb 2014 13:22:33 -0500 X-Spook: doctrine warfare Leitrim smuggle Bruxelles ISEC terrorism X-Ran: L(Kk-E!\]&D&eAU~ibsKNiuw!a%k#'tZ-tl#1i3Z^Y%NS`Z(Yg (Walter Esling's message of "Fri, 21 Feb 2014 08:09:00 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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 Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96162 Archived-At: 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[...]