From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/25921 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Dr Francis J. Wright" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: drag-drop bug... Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 15:49:33 +0100 Organization: Queen Mary College, School of Mathematical Sciences Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <38073EFD.E81D6224@Maths.QMW.ac.uk> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035163226 16728 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 01:20:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 01:20:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ding@gnus.org, ntemacs-users@cs.washington.edu Return-Path: Original-Received: from spinoza.math.uh.edu (spinoza.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.18]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA00963 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 10:53:47 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by spinoza.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id JAB03205; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 09:52:52 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 15 Oct 1999 09:52:20 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA03041 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 09:51:57 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from zeta.qmw.ac.uk (zeta.qmw.ac.uk [138.37.6.6]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA00947 for ; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 10:49:57 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from dirac.maths.qmw.ac.uk ([138.37.80.10] ident=root) by zeta.qmw.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.02 #1) id 11c8fk-0002A6-00; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 15:49:32 +0100 Original-Received: from Maths.QMW.ac.uk (centaur [138.37.80.58]) by dirac.maths.qmw.ac.uk (8.8.6/8.8.6/Maths Relay 1.18 (Arrigo)) with ESMTP id PAA00634; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 15:49:31 +0100 (BST) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en Original-To: Jeff Senn Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25921 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:25921 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