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bug#18141: 24.4.50; saving .gz file breaks file coding
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Glenn Morris |
Subject: |
bug#18141: 24.4.50; saving .gz file breaks file coding |
Date: |
Wed, 06 Aug 2014 20:03:31 -0400 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> situation, and IMO it's perfectly OK for Emacs to leave just the
> backup file if it was brutally killed during that time window.
I disagre with it being "perfectly ok"; I think it is a real, albeit
minor problem.
> So I guess X-Symbol is likely also broken now,
(Isn't X-Symbol many-years-defunct anyway? No release in a decade AFAICS.)
> So I think simply reverting the r111638 changes and leaving bug#13522
> as wontfix is an easier way out.
Agreed with the first part, but not with the second part.
> An even better fix would be to make the backing up and saving a
> transaction-like process. That would solve the problem entirely. But
> I'm not sure this is feasible/practical, with parts of the puzzle
> implemented in C and parts in Lisp. If it is possible, it will
> probably be anything but simple, and so likely inappropriate for the
> emacs-24 branch.
Sounds right, ie reopen 13522 as minor/wishlist.
- bug#18141: 24.4.50; saving .gz file breaks file coding, (continued)
- bug#18141: 24.4.50; saving .gz file breaks file coding, Stefan Monnier, 2014/08/06
- bug#18141: 24.4.50; saving .gz file breaks file coding, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/08/06
- bug#18141: 24.4.50; saving .gz file breaks file coding, Stefan Monnier, 2014/08/06
- bug#18141: 24.4.50; saving .gz file breaks file coding, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/08/07
- bug#18141: 24.4.50; saving .gz file breaks file coding, Stefan Monnier, 2014/08/07
- bug#18141: 24.4.50; saving .gz file breaks file coding, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/08/07
- bug#18141: 24.4.50; saving .gz file breaks file coding, Stefan Monnier, 2014/08/07
- bug#18141: 24.4.50; saving .gz file breaks file coding, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/08/08
bug#18141: 24.4.50; saving .gz file breaks file coding, Glenn Morris, 2014/08/06
bug#18141: 24.4.50; saving .gz file breaks file coding,
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