Re: [h-e-w] EMACS Weirdity

[Jason Rumney]

Chris Withers <address@hidden> writes:

> Basically, when opening certain types of object (Python Scripts) via
> WebDAV from the server using WebDrive (nifty prog. that makes a
> WebDAV connection appear like a Windows drive) in EMACS, I only get
> half the file or so.

> I've run up a packet sniffer and the server is sending the complete
> content to WebDrive with the correct content length, etc, and, more
> bizarely, these objects seem to open fine in other editors, just not
> EMACS. More bizarely still, if I open it up in another editor first,
> the object will then open up fine in EMACS.

This sounds like a race condition.  Maybe Emacs reads the file faster
than other editors, or more likely, it uses a slightly different method
to read the file that is not properly synchronized in WebDrive.


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Jason Rumney