Re: .saves in XEmacs

David> This bug report will be sent to the XEmacs Development Team, David> not to your local site managers!! David> Please write in English, because the XEmacs maintainers do not have David> translators to read other languages for them. David> In XEmacs 21.1 (patch 3) "Acadia" [Lucid] David> (sparc-sun-solaris2.6) of Tue Aug 3 1999 on fsui02 configured David> using `configure sparc-sun-solaris2.6 --prefix=/usr/local David> --bindir=/usr/local/bin/sparc-sun-solaris2.6 David> --site-prefixes=/usr/scratch/sect4/cgw/local' David> Please describe exactly what actions triggered the bug David> and the precise symptoms of the bug: David> (X)Emacs creates ".saves*" to record some information (I'm David> not sure what). The difference is that Emacs creates a David> name that ends in "~" while XEmacs does not. The "~" in David> the name makes it easier to collect and delete these files David> using dired-flag-backup-files. Could XEmacs change to use David> this convention? APA> Hi David, APA> M-x recover-session APA> is the proper interface to these autosave files. APA> This will bring up a dired buffer in which you can mark, visit, APA> delete the session files. Hmmm. The documentation in that buffer could be written a little better. The text mentions using 'd' to mark a file for deletion, but it doesn't tell you about expunge. Because the buffer is accessed via a special command (recover-session) and because the format of the buffer is slightly different, its not obvious that the buffer is a dired buffer or that all the same rules apply. APA> It's probably a feature they can't inadvertently be deleted with APA> the common idiomatic sequence of APA> ~ runs the command dired-flag-backup-files APA> x runs the command dired-expunge-deletions Perhaps. That's certainly what I do with GNU Emacs. Since I never really understood what they were and since they were always showing up, I just wanted to get rid of them. BTW, I have never seen any info documentation of recover-session (although there is docs on recover-file). Am I missing something? (This would explain the previous paragraph.) -- David Masterson Sr. R&D Engineer Synopsys, Inc.