Re: nuked

[Aaron S. Hawley]

I didn't see your message until just now, so I'm not sure whether it's too
late.  I'm not quite sure what your problem was either.

Your emacs configurations were registered with RCS?

"Master file" means the RCS file associated with the working file, which
is located in the subdirectroy RCS and has comma-v (",v") appended to it.
So if you had your .emacs configuration in RCS, then it's relevant master
file would be: RCS/.emacs,v

anyone cool enough to use emacs with vc-mode on Windows(tm) is cool by me.

you'll have to make the switch to GNU/Linux to avoid the virus problem.
/a

On Fri, 24 Dec 2004, bar wrote:

> I have found the relevant passage in the vc.el:
>
> ;; 5. File looked registered and not locked, but is actually unregistered.
> ;;
> ;;    Potential cause: master file got nuked during window P.
> ;;
> ;;    RCS: will fail with "RCS/<file>: No such file or directory"
> ;;    SCCS: will fail with error ut4.
> ;;
> ;;    We can let these errors be passed up to the user.
> ;;
>
> does this mean that there is no fix?  I must suffer for my stupidity
> indefinitely?
>
> here is what has occurred:
> I had a terrible virus.
> I backed up my files, and reformatted the puter, having been unable to
> correct the problem.
> I installed stuff again, downloaded emacs anew, and got it going.
> I put back my .emacs and other customizations....
>
> but some of them had been registered with RCS, and the "new" emacs did not
> accept my RCS folder, which I had saved and put into the proper
> directory.  similarly broken is gdb - I get, no such file or directory....
>
> now, some vcs things will work.  I can get it to list registered files
> (none).  and sometimes it tells me that a file is protected and asks if I
> want to try to save anyway.  but it's all hairy and unpredictable.
>
> do I really have to reformat the whole computer again to repair this?
> where is this horrible master file?  I am not a programmer, and I'm sorry
> if this question is terribly annoying.
>
> I am (for now) stuck with windows ME.
>
> many thanks for any help,
>
> -bar

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