From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: knubee Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: occasional failure to rename Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2007 07:03:40 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1189260220.747993.316610@w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1189262472 3730 80.91.229.12 (8 Sep 2007 14:41:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 14:41:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 08 16:41:11 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IU1Uj-0000UV-H9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 16:41:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1IU1Uh-0002ip-A1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 08 Sep 2007 10:41:07 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 218.186.9.2 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1189260220 10251 127.0.0.1 (8 Sep 2007 14:03:40 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2007 14:03:40 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20061201 Firefox/2.0.0.6 (Ubuntu-feisty),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: w3g2000hsg.googlegroups.com; posting-host=218.186.9.2; posting-account=ps2QrAMAAAA6_jCuRt2JEIpn5Otqf_w0 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:151842 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:47365 Archived-At: > Can you make it fail reliably when you do Emacs -Q, open a directory, > and try to rename a file before doing anything else? That worked fine. (Part of the difficulty here it happens enough to be significant, but not often enough that I notice the pattern of what I did prior to the problem occurring.) > > This does not happen all the time, but when it does the only solution > > I have found is to close out of emacs and restart. > > Do you have to restart Emacs because it's unresponsive or because it's > the only way to make renaming work? Because it is the only way to make renaming work. Everything else continues to work just fine, as far as I can tell.