Sven Joachim writes:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> I'm triaging old Emacs bugs.
Great, thanks.
>
> On 2001-10-14 23:39 +0200, Jeff Sheinberg wrote:
>
> > Package: emacs20
> > Version: 20.7-10.1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Ediff does not remove the auto-save file associated with the
> > "merge-file-buffer" after the merge has been successfully
> > terminated.
> >
> > What happens is that I invoke either the "ediff-merge-files" or
> > "ediff-merge-files-with-ancestor" function with the optional
> > "merge-file-buffer" argument, like this,
> >
> > (ediff-merge-files-with-ancestor file-a file-b file-c nil file-prefix)
> >
> > or like this,
> >
> > (ediff-merge-files file-a file-b nil file-prefix)
> >
> > from within an interactive defun that sets up the variables -
> > file-a, file-b, file-c, and file-prefix.
> >
> > Then, I do some actual merging in the "*merge*" buffer.
I'm sorry if I confused you here, but I should have typed *merge*,
which means the merge buffer (with *emphasis* on the word merge).
This buffer is named "file-prefix", because of the way I invoked
Ediff.
>
> >From Ediff, I suppose, using the a/b/n commands?
Yes, of course.
>
> > Next, I "quit" ediff, and then I affirm interactively that I want
> > to save the merge buffer as "file-prefix", and also affirm to kill
> > all of the associated merge buffers.
>
> Is there more than one merge buffer? When I run ediff-merge-files
> interactively, I get only one merge buffer named *ediff-merge*.
As I said, the merge buffer is called "file-prefix", and there is
only one of these buffers.
>
> > Much to my surprise, I find that the emacs auto-save file
> > "#file-prefix#" is not being removed after the ediff-merge has
> > been terminated, nor after I have exited emacs completely.
>
> Is this still a problem for you? I cannot reproduce it when running
> ediff-merge-files interactively.
>
Yes, note that now I am running emacs21.
I just ran a simple test case and this problem still exists.
Note that I *invoke* ediff like this:
(ediff-merge-files-with-ancestor file-a file-b file-c nil file-prefix)
or like this,
(ediff-merge-files file-a file-b nil file-prefix)
in the simple test that I just ran, I used the former.
> > However, if I do not do any merging in the "*merge*" buffer at
> > all, then the auto-save file is not left hanging around.
>
> Should not have been created in the first place then.
>
> > It is not relevant if the file "file-prefix" was an existing file,
> > or was created by "ediff".
It appears that "file-prefix" must not exist before invoking
Ediff.
Also, please try to run your test case by invoking Ediff from
the "*scratch*" buffer, which is in Lisp Interaction mode. You
may have to run the test case twice before "#file-prefix#" is
created and then left hanging around after the merge has completed.
Thanks,
--
Jeffrey Sheinberg
ps - this is my test case,
$ head f_*
==> f_A <==
this is f_A
==> f_B <==
this is now f_B
==> f_C <==
this is f_C common ancestor
(ediff-merge-files-with-ancestor f_A f_B f_C nil f)
then I used these commands to ediff: n
b
q
y
y
y
y
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