Hi everyone. I’m having a bit of trouble with PCEmacs. In short, when I edit a file it immediately pops up a dialog saying the file has been modified and asking me whether to reload it. I give more details below, but this is a bit dangerous because if I accidentally press “Reload” I risk losing w…

It does reproduce in Windows 10 Sandbox Version 8.5.15 was last version without this bug, later versions all have it. The xpce is too difficult for me, I have spent many many evenings to get a grip of xpce and the bug, I have given up. I think this commit made the bug, I have build swipl-devel ve…

It is rather unclear where this comes from. Others? The behavior is defined in buffer.pl, which you can find after starting PceEmacs and than run ?- edit(_->check_modified_file). Which should get you at check_modified_file(B, Frame:frame=[frame], Confirm:confirm=[bool]) :-> "Check if file…

Hi Jan, Thanks for the quick reply! No weird characters in [REDACTED] (you can see them in the last screenshot :). I’ll have a look at buffer.pl and see if I can find something. Thanks! Stassa

One thing that often bites on atypical filesystems is case-(in)sensitivity. For example, what would happen had the original file name really been “Buffer.pl” ?

I think this is something to do with user permissions on MS Windows. The user account I’ve been using is not an admin account. When I use an admin account, I don’t get the pop-up asking me to reload. Additionally, when I make/0 the project with an instance of SWI started as an administrator, I get…

This is not even a good guess but something that needs to be checked. Windows 10 Controlled Folder Access and file access predicate errors I would add more but I need to re-read and run all of the checks in the link just to refresh my memory.

[image] stassa.p: The user account I’ve been using is not an admin account. When I use an admin account, I don’t get the pop-up asking me to reload. That is a hint. It would be a bit odd if you can read and write the file, but cannot get its time stamp. Try using the xpce class file on the…

[image] jan: That is a hint. It would be a bit odd if you can read and write the file, but cannot get its time stamp. Try using the xpce class file on the target file. Unfortunately, I think this was a false guess on my part. I was not following the steps I documented above exactly, so I got …

I can tell that the SWI uninstaller is leaving behind some files, e.g. the console history. Is there a way to really remove everything, as if SWI had never been installed on a machine? I’m asking because I don’t understand e.g. why I cant edit check_modified_file directly anymore. This morning, jus…

[image] stassa.p: If I call edit(buffer.pl) PCEmacs opens the right buffer.pl, but I can’t seem to get it to find the send method. Well, the method is there, and if it is no longer you must have messed up something … It is a bit hard to guess what from here :frowning: Bottom line on what i…

[image] jan: I can’t reproduce this, neither on Wine, nor on Windows 11 in a VM. Thanks. I’ll see if I can clean-install windows and whether that will make it go away. When I have time! I wonder what other people do with their holidays :slight_smile:

"Modified file" dialog pops up when I edit a file after make/0 in PCEMacs (v. 9.1.1)

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"Modified file" dialog pops up when I edit a file after make/0 in PCEMacs (v. 9.1.1)

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