RE: auto-save-list-file-name

Yoshiki> Of course you can avoid this by calling save-some-buffers Yoshiki> but IMHO it should no be toggled in one session. It should Yoshiki> persist one session or you'll end up with a lot of .save-* Yoshiki> files left around after several sessions. In light of this fact, I would agree you might not want to add my changes... however should probably add a comment to the definition for auto-save-list-file-prefix to the effect: "This option should only be set once per session, preferably in the user's initialization file. If it is set any time later in the session, it may produce unpredictable behavior with auto-save and session-recover." This would hopefully help (most) others avoid falling into the trap that Steve discovered. The approach being: If we can't fix it through code, try to fix it through user-education... BTW, thanks for the feedback on the lisp. I truly am a novice, and like to learn better ways of doing things. Troy -----Original Message----- From: Yoshiki Hayashi [mailto:yoshiki＠xemacs.org] Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 10:41 PM To: Troy Noble Cc: Steve Youngs; XEmacs beta; 'Adrian Aichner' Subject: Re: auto-save-list-file-name Troy Noble <troy.noble(a)channelpoint.com&gt; writes: Oops. Thanks! I'll post a fixed version to xemacs-patches. Too many errors in one day... Actually, I don't see it as a problem. Rather I think it is a feature. The problematic example is: 1. Create a new file e.g. test and it is auto saved. This will create #test# and ~/.saves-foo. 2. Then set auto-save-list-file-name to nil. 3. Save test or kill that buffer. This will remove #test# but it won't remove ~/.save-foo because there's no way XEmacs can know what was the auto-save list file. Of course you can avoid this by calling save-some-buffers but IMHO it should no be toggled in one session. It should persist one session or you'll end up with a lot of .save-* files left around after several sessions. ------------------------------ snip