Re: bug: using remember can cause data corruption in other buffers

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

On Mar 26, 2009, at 4:13 AM, Samuel Wales wrote:

> Hi Carsten,
>
> The following form in org-remember.el appears to set the global value.
>
>    (setq auto-save-visited-file-name t)
>
> This is the right thing for remember buffers, but it should be
> buffer-local.  It could lead to data corruption in other buffers if
> you make changes that you don't intend to be permanent.
>
> I think that
>
>  (set (make-variable-buffer-local ...) t)
>
> would fix it.

Applied, thanks.

>
> This might or might not also fix a bug where emacs thinks that another
> process is locking the file that is currently being edited.  I don't
> know why.
>
> Once this is fixed, I recommend that everybody who used git within the
> last day or so, and I think set the remember directory

Yes, this wil only have caused a problem for people who actually set  
the backup
directory.

Thank you.

- Carsten