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Dan Davison c6a945e82c babel: Handle errors when temporary directory is on a different partition
* lisp/ob.el (org-babel-remove-temporary-directory): Handle exception
  with message informing of failure to remove directory.

Thanks to Antti Kaihola for the bug report:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.orgmode/34394

From: Antti Kaihola <akaihola <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Can't close Emacs+org-mode if /tmp and /home on different	partitions
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.orgmode
Date: 2010-12-02 08:33:28 GMT (6 days, 1 hour and 22 minutes ago)
I have /tmp on my root partition and a separate partition for /home.
When trying to close an Emacs session which is using org-mode, I get
this error:

    move-file-to-trash: Non-regular file: Is a directory, /tmp/babel-XXXXXXX

(where XXXXXXX are random characters).

I tracked down the problem to org-babel-remove-temporary-directory
which ob.el adds to kill-emacs-hook. It tries to remove the temporary
directory using delete-directory, which in turn tries to move the
directory (by renaming) into trash, which is in my home directory.

I added this to my ~/.emacs.d/init.el:

   (custom-set-variables '(temporary-file-directory "/home/akaihola/tmp/"))

and closing Emacs works correctly again. However, since my init.el is
part of emacs-starter-kit which I update frequently, I'd prefer not to
modify that file. Unfortunately the customization hook
emacs-starter-kit provides (~/.emacs.d/custom.el) is loaded too late
to affect the temporary directory.

I'm running emacs-snapshot 1:20090909-1 in Ubuntu 10.10. Looks like
this is really an Emacs bug and is already fixed:
http://groups.google.com/group/gnu.emacs.bug/browse_thread/thread/0446b8684a8ef504
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README

This is the Emacs Org project, an emacs subsystem for organizing your life

The homepage of Org is at http://orgmode.org

This distribution contains:

README
    This file.

README_DIST
    The README file for the distribution (zip and tar files)

README_GIT
    Information about the git repository and how to contribute
    to Org-mode development. 

lisp/
    Directory with all the Emacs Lisp files that make up Org.

doc/
    The documentation files.  org.texi is the source of the
    documentation, org.html and org.pdf are formatted versions of it.

contrib/
    A directory with third-party additions for Org.  Some really cool
    stuff is in there.

ORGWEBPAGE/
    Directory with the source files for the orgmode.org web page.
    
ChangeLog
    The standard ChangeLog file.

Makefile
    The makefile to compile and install Org, and also for maintenance
    tasks.

request-assign-future.txt
    The form that contributors have to sign and get processed with the
    FSF before contributed changes can be integrated into the Org
    core.  All files in this distribution except the CONTRIB directory
    have copyright assigned to the FSF.

EXPERIMENTAL
    Experimental code, not necessarily FSF copyright.