Subject: 23.0.60; recover-file

From: Richard M Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 04:05:53 -0500

It seems that M-x recover-file fails to make the buffer as modified.
So the user will tend not to save the file afterwards.

In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.9 (mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.11)
 of 2008-12-05 on lemote-yeeloong
configured using `configure  'CFLAGS=-O0 -g -Wno-pointer-sign' 'mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu' 'build_alias=mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu' 'target_alias=mipsel-unknown-linux-gnu''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Dired by name

Minor modes in effect:
  diff-auto-refine-mode: t
  gpm-mouse-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t
  abbrev-mode: t

Recent input:
E n g l i s h SPC i s n DEL DEL n SPC t h a t SPC p 
a g e SPC i s SPC s o SPC b a d SPC t h a t SPC i t 
SPC w i l l SPC e m b a r r a s s ESC b ESC b ESC d 
w i l l C-e SPC y o u . C-a ( C-e ESC DEL ESC DEL ESC 
DEL i s SPC e m b a r r a s s i n g . RET I SPC w o 
n d e r SPC w h o SPC w r o t e SPC i t . ) C-x 1 DEL 
SPC SPC W a s SPC i t r SPC w r i t t e n ESC b C-b 
ESC [ 2 ~ DEL C-e SPC ESC b C-b s DEL t C-e b y SPC 
s o m e o n e SPC i n SPC C h i n a ? ) RET C-c C-c 
C-x C-f e n d o r TAB RET ESC x r e C-g C-x d ESC p 
* ESC b ESC b * RET C-p C-x b C-g C-@ C-n = RET C-x 
o C-v C-x b RET ESC x r e c o v e r SPC f i l e RET 
ESC p DEL C-a C-d RET y e s RET C-x 1 C-v ESC v C-x 
b C-h C-g C-x C-g C-x C-b C-x o C-n C-n f g C-x o 1 
\ DEL DEL C-x C-s C-x o g C-x C-g ESC x r e p o r t 
SPC e m a s DEL c s SPC b u g RET

Recent messages:
Mark set [2 times]
Auto-saving...done
Sending...
Wrote /home/rms/outgoing/out-21
Sending...done
endorsements.text has auto save data; consider M-x recover-this-file
Quit [2 times]
Mark set
Quit
Wrote /home/rms/endorsements.text