From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: mdaily2002@gmail.com Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: Re: changed on disk; really edit the buffer? Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 11:22:23 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <79f3d1c1-c2d7-4400-96b6-b1877e0972f7@l1g2000hsa.googlegroups.com> References: <456ca33a-316c-4dbe-9598-f9e37dfb250e@w34g2000hsg.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1195455801 12476 80.91.229.12 (19 Nov 2007 07:03:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 07:03:21 +0000 (UTC) To: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 19 08:03:26 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Iu0fG-0004Ye-70 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 08:03:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Iu0f2-00056H-SK for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:03:12 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!l1g2000hsa.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 39 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 128.220.254.4 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1195413743 20489 127.0.0.1 (18 Nov 2007 19:22:23 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:22:23 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: l1g2000hsa.googlegroups.com; posting-host=128.220.254.4; posting-account=lA0FwggAAAA8IS7QvqXwAUdPU2KQo5WP User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071025 Firefox/2.0.0.9,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Content-Disposition: inline Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.bug:43930 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:03:00 -0500 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:17015 Archived-At: On Nov 18, 2:12 pm, mdaily2...@gmail.com wrote: > On Nov 13, 6:12 am, Stephan Lukits > wrote: > > > > > martin rudalics schrieb: > > > >> It changes time even before Emacs complains. It changes time > > >> exactly at that moment when emacs does auto-saving. > > > > Do you have `auto-save-visited-file-name' non-nil? > > > Yes. After setting it to nil the problem is gone. > > I'm sorry for all the trouble. I can't remember > > having this option set but it was changed. > > > If this behavior is reasonable or if this setting > > is an end user setting is another question. If this > > setting is set I wouldn't expect Emacs to complain > > about a changed file which was changed by Emacs. > > > Thank you all for your kind help and best regards > > Stephan > > I was also having this problem with emacs on windows and it was very > annoying. So far the solution seems to be working. I don't think it > has anything to do with summer time since that is now over in the US > as well. > > Mike Daily Actually it didn't work. The only solution I found that seems to work is to turn auto-save-default to nil, with the caveat that that gets rid of auto-saving. It looks like emacs auto-saves every 300 characters you type into the file; hence this is why it thinks the file has changed on disk. Mike