From: Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com>
To: 11274@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#11274: 23.1; auto-save invoked in read-only directories
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:44:33 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jmoc6p$k0$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1334783017.019980.2631.nullmailer@vm-home1.us.archive.org>
On 4/18/12 3:03 PM, danh@mail.archive.org wrote:
> When i edit a file in a directory to which i do not have
> write-permission (such as /etc), after i type a line or
> two of text, or type a few characters and then move around
> in the buffer, emacs will suddenly freeze and just print
> a message in the mini-buffer that my text could not be auto-saved.
>
> The message stays up for several seconds before it
> yields control of the terminal back to me.
>
> This is extremely inconvenient, and the only way i can
> prevent this from happening is to frequently save the file.
These statements seem contradictory to me:
> I do not want to turn auto-save off, or to mark any buffers
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> as to not be auto-saved, or to change the location of the
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> auto-saves (unless it can be done once and forever, only
> apply to files in write-protected directories and no others,
> and not require a listing of either the files or directories
> to which it is to be applied).
>
> The desired behavior is that emacs recognize that a directory
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> is write-protected, and if an attempt to write to that directory
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> fails, that it fail silently. (It would be quite OK to have
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> this governed by the behavior of a variable set in my .emacs file.)
(add-hook 'find-file-hook
(lambda () (when (file-writable-p
(file-name-directory buffer-file-name))
(auto-save-mode 0))))
(add-hook 'find-file-not-found-functions
(lambda () (when (file-writable-p
(file-name-directory buffer-file-name))
(auto-save-mode 0))
;; don't short-circuit run-hook-with-args-until-success:
nil))
> I am not the only person who has reported this problem to
> newsgroups, but i wasn't aware of the possibility of filing
> a bug from within emacs until Michael Heerdegen told me
> about it.
>
> (Note that emacs does not crash, and never has for me. But
> the freezing happens to me, colleagues of mine, and people
> i've never heard of on the newsgroups.)
>
> dan (danh@archive.org)
--
Kevin Rodgers
Denver, Colorado, USA
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-19 6:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-18 21:03 bug#11274: 23.1; auto-save invoked in read-only directories danh
2012-04-19 6:44 ` Kevin Rodgers [this message]
2012-04-20 1:06 ` Michael Heerdegen
2021-05-28 2:29 ` bug#11274: bug#18907: 25.0.50; long pause when auto-save fails Lars Ingebrigtsen
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