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, APA> visit, delete the session files. David> Hmmm. The documentation in that buffer could be written a David> little better. The text mentions using 'd' to mark a file Any suggestions, or patches even? David> for deletion, but it doesn't tell you about expunge. David> Because the buffer is accessed via a special command David> (recover-session) and because the format of the buffer is David> slightly different, its not obvious that the buffer is a David> dired buffer or that all the same rules apply. Doesn't it say Dired in the modeline? APA> It's probably a feature they can't inadvertently be deleted APA> with the common idiomatic sequence of APA> ~ runs the command dired-flag-backup-files APA> x runs the command dired-expunge-deletions David> Perhaps. That's certainly what I do with GNU Emacs. Since David> I never really understood what they were and since they David> were always showing up, I just wanted to get rid of them. David> BTW, I have never seen any info documentation of David> recover-session (although there is docs on recover-file). David> Am I missing something? (This would explain the previous David> paragraph.) I get this with C-h a recover-session RET Apropos search for: "recover-session" * = command (M-x) or user-variable. a = autoloaded, b = byte-compiled, i = internal, l = lambda, m = macro. Functions and Macros: b* recover-session - Recover auto save files from a previous Emacs session. b* recover-session-finish - Choose one saved session to recover auto-save files from. Variables and Constants: David> -- David> David Masterson David> Sr. R&D Engineer David> Synopsys, Inc. -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/