From: Ed Sabol via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: 39791@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#39791: 26.3; auto-save-list-file-name should not be deleted when Emacs is terminated by SIGHUP
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 14:22:44 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200225192244.EFF4D80AE2@alderaan.gsfc.nasa.gov> (raw)
If I ssh to a remote server and start Emacs and my ssh connection is severed
sometime thereafter, causing the remote emacs process to be terminated with
SIGHUP, the auto-save-list-file-name file is deleted. I find this very
undesirable. If there's an option to change this behavior, I can't find one.
The Emacs manual says this about 'auto-save-list-file-name':
When Emacs exits normally, it deletes this file; if Emacs crashes, you
can look in the file to find all the auto-save files that might contain
work that was otherwise lost. The recover-session command uses this file
to find them.
Older versions of Emacs apparently had a different definition of "when Emacs
exits normally" compared to Emacs 26.x. Emacs 21.x, for example, does not
delete the auto-save-list-file-name file when the ssh connection is severed
and a remote emacs process is killed with SIGHUP.
In GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
of 2019-11-19 built on heabox
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next reply other threads:[~2020-02-25 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-02-25 19:22 Ed Sabol via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2020-02-28 4:46 ` bug#39791: 26.3; auto-save-list-file-name should not be deleted when Emacs is terminated by SIGHUP Eli Zaretskii
2020-02-28 19:43 ` Edward J. Sabol via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-02-28 23:03 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-03-02 23:35 ` Edward J. Sabol via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2020-08-27 10:29 ` Stefan Kangas
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