From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Barry Margolin Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Files silently fail to save when "emacs -nw " is called from multiple terminals Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 11:34:56 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1368546461 17123 80.91.229.3 (14 May 2013 15:47:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 15:47:41 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 14 17:47:42 2013 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 1UcHS1-00056z-97 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 May 2013 17:47:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42601 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UcHS0-00044d-Ub for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 May 2013 11:47:40 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!barmar.motzarella.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 31 Injection-Info: barmar.motzarella.org; posting-host="2be9e9f5dd9af768b8861af71b85fc28"; logging-data="1091"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+IzvOtJf0Ezfw8KRYNuBvZ" User-Agent: MT-NewsWatcher/3.5.3b3 (Intel Mac OS X) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uF22wprZ/dPCNxcSy+518W3DNDo= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:198497 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Tue, 14 May 2013 11:47:31 -0400 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:90765 Archived-At: In article , Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 10:02:21 -0400 > > From: Andrew Pennebaker > > > > I was planning to make the same code change to several projects, so I > > opened a few Console 2 tabs and ran "emacs -nw README.md" in each of > > them. I began making my changes to the REAMDE.md's in emacs and hit > > C-x C-s to save. I would close emacs with C-x C-c and try to cat the > > README.md's, but no such file was saved. No temporary files remained. > > For each file, I had to start writing it all over again. > > > > I suspect that somehow, multiple "emacs -nw" calls are interfering > > with each other. > > No, they don't. I just tried. > > If you can reliably reproduce that, report the recipe for that using > "M-x report-emacs-bug RET". It is best to try reproducing this > without any non-standard software such as Console 2 (after all, each > tab there is just another instance of the shell, so just opening > several shell windows should be enough to show the problem). And make sure to try it with "emacs -q", to see if it's something optional that you load that's causing it. -- Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me ***