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[Orgmode] bug: using remember can cause data corruption in other buffers


From: Samuel Wales
Subject: [Orgmode] bug: using remember can cause data corruption in other buffers
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:13:28 -0700

Hi Carsten,

The following form in org-remember.el appears to set the global value.

    (setq auto-save-visited-file-name t)

This is the right thing for remember buffers, but it should be
buffer-local.  It could lead to data corruption in other buffers if
you make changes that you don't intend to be permanent.

I think that

  (set (make-variable-buffer-local ...) t)

would fix it.

This might or might not also fix a bug where emacs thinks that another
process is locking the file that is currently being edited.  I don't
know why.

Once this is fixed, I recommend that everybody who used git within the
last day or so, and I think set the remember directory, get the fixed
version and check the value of that variable.

Thanks.

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