From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Jacobson Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: emacs should quiz that #backups# exist by default Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 08:56:13 +0800 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87el65ozpu.fsf@jidanni.org> Reply-To: Dan Jacobson NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1045628365 896 80.91.224.249 (19 Feb 2003 04:19:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 04:19:25 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18lLhc-0000EK-00 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 05:19:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18lLgc-0001R6-01 for gnu-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 23:18:22 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18lLgO-0001Ob-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 23:18:08 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18lLd3-00008U-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 23:14:42 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18lLcy-0008Vh-00 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 23:14:36 -0500 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18lLcv-0008S4-00 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 05:14:33 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Received: from news by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18lLcu-0008Ru-00 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 05:14:32 +0100 Original-Lines: 28 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i386-pc-linux-gnu) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:4488 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:4488 My icemw crashed and took emacs along with it. What a great store of things to complain about for my bad day not at the office. Upon starting a new emacs, I wonder, might there be some #files#? I suppose I have to poke around for them myself. No spoiling emacs' happy mood by it pro-actively telling me about them. Hmm, OK, I check the newer files in ~/.backups, and sure enough in /home/jidanni/.backups/.saves-636-debian~ there are lots of them. OK, which are really there? $ grep \# < .saves-636-debian|xargs ls shows that indeed only one is really there. OK, what changed? $ diff -c makefile \#makefile\#|cat -v ! # echo $(c84)|proj $p +ellps=aust_SA #found M-&M-(M-$j mistake --- 5,11 ---- ! # echo $(c84)|proj $p +ellps=aust_SA #found M-^XM-*M-*M-^XM-&M-L mistake ah ha, emacs has used its own format for the original big5 chinese. ok, M-x recover-file indeed works but needs emacs to unlock the 'proprietary emacs #backup# file format'... ok, mentioned that before. no big deal but do make emacs more forthcoming about what happened bad last session. Let's say the power blew and when you come back to work next monday you have already forgotten to poke around manually. you want emacs to quiz you that some #backups# exist. In Recovering Data from Auto-Save in Info we dont see that emacs uses its list of auto-save files to pro-actively notify the user... -- http://jidanni.org/ Taiwan(04)25854780