GNU bug report logs - #7556
24.0.50; visiting an EPS file with preview TIFF image and with one long line

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Message #31 received at 7556-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE>
Cc: 7556-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7556: 24.0.50;
	visiting an EPS file with preview TIFF image and with one long line
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2010 20:44:39 +0200

> Cc: 7556 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa <at> Freenet.DE>
> Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 10:43:33 +0100
> 
> The elder NS variant is faster than the X client and did not produce a  
> backup file. I did not wait until the up-to-date X client finished  
> scrolling or creating the backup file but killed it with xkill. *This*  
> produced the backup file. The date of this file and that of my action  
> is the same, to the minute. Previously I killed GNU Emacs when it  
> became inoperable and not knowing the cause of this behaviour. After  
> this I visited the directory in dired mode and saw the backup files  
> and concluded they might have been created when GNU Emacs started to  
> consume all CPU power–now in some irregular working mode–while in fact  
> this was perhaps a minute later when I killed it.

Yes, when Emacs catches a fatal signal, it auto-saves.  This is normal
behavior.

Closing.  Thanks for looking into this.

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