Re: is it possible to «lose» edits when aborting recursive-edits?

[Uwe Brauer]

>>> "EZ" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 21:54:09 +0100
>> From:  Uwe Brauer via "Emacs development discussions." <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>> 
>> I just edited for around 40 min a file, and wanted to commit the
>> changes. I noticed that I had 2 or three recursive-edits level, most
>> likely the result of some errors that occurred when I executed some
>> reftex and latex commands (I do not recall the reasons).
>> 
>> Be it as it may: I hit C-] as I always do, 
>> committed  but then realized that some of my changes were not committed,
>> indeed they seem to have vanished.

> What do you mean by "not committed"?

The did not appear in the commit.

Here is an example

Paragraph 1:

New: blabla

Paragraph: 2

New: more blabla blabla

C-]

Commit via vc-next-action

All new parts paragraph 1 are not part of the commit.

I suspect they «disappeared» when I hit C-]

Possible explanation

Paragraph 2

New more blabla 

Was written on the top-level but Paragraph 1 on some second or higher
recursive-level and disappeared after having hit C-]


I just run an experiment. I cannot reproduce my hypothesis

> In general, please describe in more detail what you did before and
> after C-], as these details matter for trying to figure out what
> happened in your case. 

Yes of course, I wish I could, my hope was that somebody had seen
something similar in the  past

I now set, locally 

%%% vc-make-backup-files: t

 
>  (Your evident assumption that there's some
> obvious aspect of C-] that will immediately yield an answer is
> incorrect, since C-] aborts the current command, but cannot possibly
> undo the effect of previous commands on buffer text.)

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