Re: Dired 7.10 bug: save-buffer fails if file exists
On Sunday 19 October 2003 10:27 am, Michael Sperber wrote:
>>> after opening a dired buffer in my (beta, mule-enabled)
XEmacs, I
>>> regularly (not always, though - the problem isn't really
>>> reproducible) get a "No file on this line" error when trying to
>>> save some other file. Following a suggestion from xemacs-beta, I
>>> set debug-on-error and got the attached backtrace.
>> Could you send the Dired buffer where this occurs?
> I'll try to remember it next time, but last time I didn't even have
> a dired buffer - I closed it before the bug appeared.
I'm pretty sure this isn't really possible. The "no file on this
line" refers to a line in a Dired buffer.
I'm pretty sure it did happen.
We don't have to argue about it though - I've
just posted a way to reproduce the problem (in my installation - I bet
everything will work in lots of other installations :-/ ) with a Dired buffer
open. I did not succeed in complicating the recipe to have the bug appear
with a Dired buffer closed - I guess it takes some other coincidence for
Dired to leave some buffer ghost behind... And I agree it's a Dired error
message - as far as I can remember, I've only seen the bug after opening a
Dired buffer.
Bye
Vasek