GNU bug report logs - #13505
Bug#696026: emacs24: file corruption on saving

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Rob Browning <rlb <at> defaultvalue.org>

Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 04:11:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 13377

Found in version 24.3.50

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #26 received at 13505 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 696026-forwarded <at> bugs.debian.org, handa <at> gnu.org, 696026 <at> bugs.debian.org,
	rlb <at> defaultvalue.org, 13505 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13505: Bug#696026: emacs24: file corruption on saving
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 23:22:11 +0100

On 2013-01-20 23:10:08 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> But Emacs should clearly tell the user what to do after C-x C-s and
> clearly say when there can be data loss. Currently it says:
[...]

In fact, I fear that this may not be sufficient, because some data
loss silently occurs when visiting the file. If after the decoding, it
appears that there are no problematic characters (is this possible?),
the user would be able to save the file without any message from
Emacs.

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