bug#7854: 24.0.50; Buffer *temp* modified; kill anyway?

[Reiner Steib]

On Mon, Jan 17 2011, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> (a) emacs -Q -eval \
>>     "(defalias 'tramp-completion-file-name-handler 'file-name-non-special)"
>
>>     I added this alias because I couldn't prevent tramp kicking in
>>     (which adds quite a long delay the first time tramp is loaded) by
>>     simply customizing `tramp-mode' to nil, as I expected to from the
>>     doc string. Then I found that `file-name-handler-alist' has entries
>>     for `tramp-completion-file-name-handler' and
>>     `tramp-file-name-handler', and concluded that aliasing these to the
>>     default `file-name-non-special' might do the trick.
>
>> (b) M-x cvs-update RET
>
>> (c) I get a prompt like this:
>
>>     "Buffer  *temp* modified; kill anyway? "
>
> Hmm... can't reproduce this here.  I get a prompt "CVS Update (directory):"
> instead, and no matter what directory I select I don't get this bug.

The bug happens before I can select the directory, so the specific
directory doesn't matter.

I neither can reproduce it on GNU/Linux, but on Windows, it is 100%
reproducible.  Any ideas how I can obtain more useful information from
the debug buffer?  Which *.el file should I load?

One more data point: The problem also happens e.g. when starting
Gnus.  My guess is that it happen when Emacs reads a file (.cvsrc,
...) into a temp buffer.

Bye, Reiner.
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