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* auto-save-visited-file-name
@ 2003-10-15 18:59 Stefan Monnier
  2003-10-15 21:20 ` auto-save-visited-file-name Kim F. Storm
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  0 siblings, 3 replies; 9+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2003-10-15 18:59 UTC (permalink / raw)



Has anyone ever tried to use this variable ?

It has some really nasty effects.  Let's see a session:

% emacs -q --no-site-file
M-: (setq auto-save-visited-file-name t)
C-x C-f ~/tmp/foo.txt RET
type in some text with é or à
C-x C-s
# Now foo.txt has size 30, for instance, using latin-1.
SPC DEL
# Wait until the buffer is auto-saved.
# BUG-1: Now foo.txt has size 32, using emacs-mule encoding.
C-x C-s
# BUG-2: Emacs prompts because the file was "changed since saved".
# let's not save, but kill the buffer instead.
C-g
C-x k RET
# BUG-3: foo.txt does not exist any more because Emacs thought it
#        was the auto-save file and should thus be removed.

I think we need to do something.
Maybe fix the above bugs, which might uglify a good bit of the code.
Or maybe remove the option instead.
Or at least make it into a `defvar' rather than `defcustom'.


        Stefan

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2003-10-15 21:20 ` auto-save-visited-file-name Kim F. Storm
2003-10-16 17:10   ` auto-save-visited-file-name Stefan Monnier
2003-10-16 19:52     ` auto-save-visited-file-name Kim F. Storm
2003-10-16  7:19 ` auto-save-visited-file-name Eli Zaretskii
2003-10-17 20:46 ` auto-save-visited-file-name Richard Stallman
2003-10-17 21:14   ` auto-save-visited-file-name Stefan Monnier
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