- From: Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>
- To: Norbert Nemec <address@hidden>
- Cc: <address@hidden>
- Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] very disappointed
- Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 21:10:14 +0100 (CET)
On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Norbert Nemec wrote:
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I think I experience something similar, though it never hit me that hard
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and I
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cannot really put my finger on what happens.
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Seems like the current version (1.0.4.5) has some problem that did not occur
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before, but every time I explicitely test it, the 'bug' disappears:
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I work on a file, have autosave activated, do manual saves ever so often and
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at some time I leave the program (without any notice about unsaved files).
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When I check the files on disk, the backup file (*.tm~) contains a recent
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version while the main file (*.tm) seems untouched during the whole session.
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(It still has the old modify time and the same content as before the
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session)
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When I open texmacs again, of course it opens the old version. If I notice
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fast enough and close texmacs before it does an autosave, I can just copy
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the .tm~ file to .tm and save the day. If I don't do that, of course, the
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old
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autosave is eventually overwritten and the content lost.
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I have TeXmacs running on my notebook, so I strongly doubt any quota or
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permission related problems. As I said, the problem does not seem
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reproducible. But maybe the changes done in the save/autosave code over the
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past few releases might give a clue? The problem definitely only appeared
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recently.
The code for saving/loading did not change for about five months at least.
So it is very unlikely that the problem appeared recently. I never experienced
it myself and I work every day with the latest version of TeXmacs...
So if there is something to correct, then it would be good to find
a way to reproduce the bug...
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