Re: Autosave fails for narrowed buffers, particularly RMAIL

[James A. Bednar]

|  Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 19:37:01 +0200
|  From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
|  
|  > From: "James A. Bednar" <jbednar@cs.utexas.edu>
|  > Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 14:03:45 -0600 (CST)
|  > 
|  > Since at least Emacs 20.3, autosaving fails for narrowed buffers,
|  
|  Can you please elaborate how does it fail?  

My original email had the relevant message output:

  Recent messages:
  ...
  Auto-saving...
  Autosaving...error for RMAIL
  Auto-saving...done

This message is the only indication I have of the failure; it appears
in the minibuffer (temporarily halting all input) and is logged in the
*Messages* buffer.  I have no idea what the failure itself consists
of.  I get the same message for RMAIL buffers and for other narrowed
buffers, which are less common.

|  I cannot reproduce this in Emacs 20.6.  Please give a precise
|  recipe for reproducing this problem.
|
|  Does it happen if you invoke Emacs with "emacs -q"?

Grr... So far, it happens all the time for me as I'm actually doing my
work, but when I set up a clean Emacs session to reproduce the
problem, I can't reproduce it.  I haven't yet been able to tell if the
-q option changes the behavior, since I can't work for very long
without the right setup, and it only seems to happen when I'm in the
middle of other things :-(.  If I can find a good recipe for it, I'll
post it here.

Thanks for checking it out,

Jim