Re: Auto save error

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>>>>> On Fri, 16 Dec 94 22:12:34 +0100,
      davidbe@goliat.upc.es (David) said:

 > I think I would like auto-save.el if it worked...  As I have said
 > before, debug-on-error does not give a traceback for this error.
 > What this depends on is a mystery to me.  If you hint me about an
 > entry point, perhaps I could do debug-on-entry?

Try doing debug-on-entry to fn-handler-do-auto-save.

 > So why doesn't it work?  Is there something wrong with fn-handler.el?

Possible, but I still haven't been able to reproduce the problem.

 > Something that is only affected when I run dired?

Probably because dired requires fn-handler.

 > But where does dired.el come into this?  I don't have any problems
 > before I run dired, so it must be something there.

Dired uses file-name-handlers to to automatic buffer maintenance.  If
the file-name-handler support is buggy somehow, then loading dired
will excercise this bug.

--sandy

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