I fully agree with Michael that this is a severe bug as I have lost
many hours of editing myself. Unfortunately I don't see any progress
on this bug for almost 3 years. Let's try to change that! :-)
Last night I patched vidir to circumvent the problem of lost changes
and renamed it to vidir-safe
severity 718191 normal
thanks
On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 18:40:25 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Grave severity means that this is so important that it would be better
> to remove moreutils entirely than leave it as-is.
Sorry, I wasn't aware of that; the documentation[1] states that data
loss alone is en
Michael Gold wrote:
> vidir should either reopen the editor on error (maybe with comments at
> the top and above the bad lines) or save a copy of the edited list in
> the working directory.
>
> I have occasionally encountered this problem after spending a long time
> editing a large directory, and
Package: moreutils
Version: 0.49
Severity: grave
vidir will abort, discarding the edited name list, on a parsing error:
michael@terra:~/x$ mkdir vidir-test
michael@terra:~/x$ cd vidir-test/
michael@terra:~/x/vidir-test$ ls
michael@terra:~/x/vidir-test$ touch a b c d e
michael@terra:~/x/vidir-test
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