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From: "Dr Francis J. Wright" <F.J.Wright@qmw.ac.uk>
Cc: ding@gnus.org, ntemacs-users@cs.washington.edu
Subject: Re: drag-drop bug...
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 15:49:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <38073EFD.E81D6224@Maths.QMW.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <wkk8ooohjy.fsf@SNIPE.maya.com>

Jeff Senn wrote:
> 
> So I just experienced a wierd bug in my [GNU Emacs 20.4.1
> (i386-*-windows95.1111)] (running Windows 95)
> 
> I don't have time to track it down at the moment, but maybe if I
> mention it, someone will notice when it happens again and catch it.
> (I can't seem to replicate it at the moment)
> 
> I drag-dropped several files onto the emacs window (which worked),
> then I tried to kill (C-x C-k) the buffer that the cursor was
> in....and it was odd (violated all the Emacs expectations programmed
> in my spine and fingers) the buffer just sat there.  Possibly I
> repeated the kill a couple of times.  Something I did finally killed
> the buffer.
> 
> Then I noticed that many of my gnus (pgnus 0.95) buffers were gone!!!
> 
> Including the *Group* buffer (and I'm sure it didn't run the various
> hooks associated with killing the buffer)... in this case, no-harm
> (saved by dribble); I'm glad it wasn't some buffer with an
> important edit underway...

Here's a guess for someone to shoot down.  The drag-drop caused Emacs to
garbage collect.  While it was doing that, it stored the kill-buffer
commands.  When it had finished garbage collecting, it applied the
stored kill-buffer commands and killed the top so-many buffers.  If this
guess is correct then the moral is just to be patient!

Francis


  reply	other threads:[~1999-10-15 14:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1999-10-15 13:54 Jeff Senn
1999-10-15 14:49 ` Dr Francis J. Wright [this message]
1999-10-15 17:07   ` Jeff Senn
1999-10-15 17:59 ` Kai Großjohann
1999-10-18 15:15   ` Jeff Senn
1999-10-18 15:23     ` Kai Großjohann

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