Re: My tex file became chaos code without any sake when I reopen it.

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> Hongyi Zhao <address@hidden> (HZ) wrote:

>HZ> Dear Kenichi and others,
>HZ> I encountered a strange thing, the attached is my tex file which I reopen 
>it
>HZ> when I restart my PC, but I find it becomes chaos codes, whose default
>HZ> encoding scheme is GB18030.  I've used all the methods to revert it but all
>HZ> these methods like water off a duck's back.

>HZ> Sigh.  It this a bug of Emacs, or anything I don't know?  Who can tell me?

It typically looks like some file corruptions that I have met occasionally.
It happened to me when I run out of diskspace. Then there isn't enough
swapspace available and virtual memory allocation may fail. I think that
Emacs doesn't check properly if a malloc fails and then corrupts its memory
when a malloc fails. I have no idea if that might be the cause of your
memory corruption, but I have had several times (let's say once a month)
file corruptions.
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