From: Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@gnu.org>
Cc: 9814@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9814: 23.3; unguarded setq of default-directory in ido.el
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:24:18 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2r51t3qxp.fsf@boostpro.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8739ecuzck.fsf@gnu.org> (Chong Yidong's message of "Sat, 29 Oct 2011 13:43:39 +0800")
on Fri Oct 28 2011, Chong Yidong <cyd-AT-gnu.org> wrote:
> Dave Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
>
>> I'm sorry that I don't have a reproducer at the moment. I was having
>> some failures during startup that would leave my Emacs unable to change
>> buffers with `M-x switch-to-buffer', which was remapped to
>> ido-switch-buffer, because it would attempt to make a Tramp connection
>> to some nonexistent host. I could get around this by `M-: (setq
>> default-directory "~")', so I went hunting in ido.el for mentions of
>> default-directory and found 2 instances of (setq default-directory...)
>> that were not apparently surrounded by a let. This seems like a likely
>> cause of the problem.
>
> I'm not too familiar with ido, and do not know whether those setqs are
> intentional. Could you try let-binding default-directory in those
> locations and test it out for a while, and see if there is any effect?
I've made the changes... I guess the best report you can expect, unless
I get myself into trouble at startup again, is that it has no effect.
Will you check back with me in a week?
--
Dave Abrahams
BoostPro Computing
http://www.boostpro.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-31 19:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-20 18:53 bug#9814: 23.3; unguarded setq of default-directory in ido.el Dave Abrahams
2011-10-29 5:43 ` Chong Yidong
2011-10-31 19:24 ` Dave Abrahams [this message]
2013-07-09 4:46 ` Leo Liu
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