From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
Cc: 23276@debbugs.gnu.org, michael.albinus@gmx.de, andlind@gmail.com
Subject: bug#23276: 25.0.92; Crash in auto-revert when file no longer present
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 05:39:36 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d1pparh3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2h9f1ov92.fsf@newartisans.com> (message from John Wiegley on Sat, 16 Apr 2016 18:54:17 -0700)
> From: John Wiegley <jwiegley@gmail.com>
> Cc: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>, 23276@debbugs.gnu.org, andlind@gmail.com
> Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 18:54:17 -0700
>
> >>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > And I still am not convinced that deleting a file under auto-revert
> > shouldn't erase its buffer. Otherwise, it sounds like just half-auto-revert
> > to me. Would we keep the buffer non-empty if the file existed but was empty?
>
> I would not want it to erase the buffer. Countless have been the times that
> I've been working on a project, and an unbridled rm took away code from the
> disk which I was very grateful to find was still in a buffer.
How is it different from clobbering a file by making it empty?
Don't we have a variant of auto-revert that never shrinks the buffer?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-17 2:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-12 11:07 bug#23276: 25.0.92; Crash in auto-revert when file no longer present Anders Lindgren
2016-04-12 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-12 16:14 ` Michael Albinus
2016-04-16 18:44 ` Michael Albinus
2016-04-16 18:55 ` Anders Lindgren
2016-04-16 20:56 ` Michael Albinus
2016-04-16 19:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-16 20:35 ` Michael Albinus
2016-04-16 20:56 ` Anders Lindgren
2016-04-16 21:30 ` Michael Albinus
2016-04-17 1:54 ` John Wiegley
2016-04-17 2:39 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-04-17 2:53 ` John Wiegley
2016-04-17 2:57 ` John Mastro
2016-04-17 8:52 ` Michael Albinus
2016-04-18 8:26 ` Michael Albinus
2016-04-17 13:20 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-04-17 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-17 16:01 ` Óscar Fuentes
2016-04-17 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-18 8:24 ` Michael Albinus
2020-12-29 20:02 ` bug#23276: autorevert for a deleted dired directory (ref: 23276) Boruch Baum
2020-12-29 20:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-29 20:45 ` Boruch Baum
2020-12-29 20:24 ` Drew Adams
2020-12-29 21:18 ` Boruch Baum
2020-12-29 22:07 ` Drew Adams
2022-04-27 14:09 ` bug#23276: 25.0.92; Crash in auto-revert when file no longer present Lars Ingebrigtsen
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