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Re: Files silently fail to save when "emacs -nw <file>" is called from m
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Barry Margolin |
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Re: Files silently fail to save when "emacs -nw <file>" is called from multiple terminals |
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Tue, 14 May 2013 11:34:56 -0400 |
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In article <mailman.25735.1368541485.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 10:02:21 -0400
> > From: Andrew Pennebaker <andrew.pennebaker@gmail.com>
> >
> > I was planning to make the same code change to several projects, so I
> > opened a few Console 2 tabs and ran "emacs -nw README.md" in each of
> > them. I began making my changes to the REAMDE.md's in emacs and hit
> > C-x C-s to save. I would close emacs with C-x C-c and try to cat the
> > README.md's, but no such file was saved. No temporary files remained.
> > For each file, I had to start writing it all over again.
> >
> > I suspect that somehow, multiple "emacs -nw" calls are interfering
> > with each other.
>
> No, they don't. I just tried.
>
> If you can reliably reproduce that, report the recipe for that using
> "M-x report-emacs-bug RET". It is best to try reproducing this
> without any non-standard software such as Console 2 (after all, each
> tab there is just another instance of the shell, so just opening
> several shell windows should be enough to show the problem).
And make sure to try it with "emacs -q", to see if it's something
optional that you load that's causing it.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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