"bzr commit" w/ emacs fails to delete backup temp log file

[Kevin Cole]

Using bzr (bazaar-ng) 0.8pre: When environment variables EDITOR and VISUAL are set to emacs, "bzr commit" respects the chosen editor. However, upon saving the log message and exiting, a bzr_log.[randomstring]~ file is left undeleted.

[Martin Pool (mbp)]

Well, it's up to emacs whether to make a backup file or not when saving. There's a variable which could be used to turn this on (or off).

I suppose we could look for typical backups of the temporary file and delete them too when it's deleted.

Perhaps better would be to store the message file in $TMPDIR and only copy it to the working directory after editing is complete, so that it's saved if the commit is interruped.

[Paul Brannan (pbrannan)]

I solved this with:

~/.vimrc:
filetype on
filetype plugin on

~/.vim/ftplugin/bzr.vim:
set nobackup