From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: CVS Bug? Losing auto save files Date: 27 Nov 2003 07:54:05 +0200 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1069912697 32640 80.91.224.253 (27 Nov 2003 05:58:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 05:58:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 27 06:58:15 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 1APFAM-0003Ym-00 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 06:58:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1APG5g-0006Rk-Lq for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 01:57:28 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1APG58-0006KH-4N for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 01:56:54 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1APG4Y-0005oD-3S for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 01:56:49 -0500 Original-Received: from [207.232.27.5] (helo=WST0054) by monty-python.gnu.org with asmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1APG1z-0002Am-Vh for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 01:53:40 -0500 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Dan Anderson on Thu, 27 Nov 2003 04:29:46 GMT) 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:14637 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:14637 > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help > From: Dan Anderson > Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 04:29:46 GMT > > I'm following the CVS version of Emacs. Thanks for reporting this. However, problems with the CVS version are best reported to emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org (if you think this might be a bug). > My ssh session > crashed, and I M-x recover-file to the file. But I had a copy of the > file open, so I get an error like "can't work on the file". Maybe I'm dense, but I don't get this: what do you mean by ``but I have a copy of the file open''? Who or what holds it open, and why? The crashed session cannot have anything to do with that, assuming that you ran Emacs in it, since Emacs closes the file immediately after it reads it into a buffer. Also, please make a point of reporting the exact wording of the error messages you see. ``An error like "can't work on the file"'' is not a very helpful description, as none of us here has a crystal ball to see what was displayed on your screen. I suspect that the message was talking about a file being locked by Emacs that ran in the crashed session, in which case you should have stolen the lock (one of the possibilities Emacs offers you in the message it displays in that case). > So I close the file How did you ``close the file'', exactly? Emacs has no such operation; the only one I can think about is an item labeled "Close (current buffer)" in the menu-bar's "File" menu. Is that what you did? > and try to recover file it and no dice -- the recover > file was deleted. > > A) Is there any way to get back my work? If the auto-save file was deleted, you cannot recover your work, sorry. But Emacs always asks before it kills a buffer which has unsaved changes, so you should have been given a chance to repent. > B) Is this a bug or was I just really dumb to open the file without > recovering it? The latter. > C) Is there a gnusgroup for bugs / CVS emacs so I don't need to bother > people here?? See above. If you use "M-x report-emacs-bug RET", which is the proper vehicle for reporting bugs, Emacs will send the message to the appropriate address automatically (it knows that it's a CVS version). Take a look at the "Bugs" section of the Emacs manual some day.