From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Cc: stefan@marxist.se, npostavs@gmail.com, 18336@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18336: 24.4.50; When editing externally changed file, Emacs asks too many questions
Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2020 19:09:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83sgisypbd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tv38kp33.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from David Kastrup on Sun, 01 Mar 2020 17:38:24 +0100)
> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 01 Mar 2020 17:38:24 +0100
> Cc: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>, 18336@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> And it is still the same in that respect.
>
> [Original change behind Emacs' back, the trying to edit buffer]
> smobs.cc changed on disk; really edit the buffer? (y, n, r or C-h) y
> File on disk now will become a backup file if you save these changes.
> [So far so good. Now pressing C-x C-s]
> Saving file /usr/local/tmp/lilypond/lily/smobs.cc...
> [That message is ok]
> smobs.cc changed on disk; really edit the buffer? (y, n, r or C-h) y
> [That question is ludicrous. I am saving the file, not editing it.]
> File on disk now will become a backup file if you save these changes.
> [What does that even mean? I _am_ saving this file right now.]
> Wrote /usr/local/tmp/lilypond/lily/smobs.cc
Please try the latest pretest of Emacs 27, things are more reasonable
now.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-01 17:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-27 7:44 bug#18336: 24.4.50; When editing externally changed file, Emacs asks too many questions David Kastrup
2020-03-01 0:27 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-03-01 16:26 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-01 16:38 ` David Kastrup
2020-03-01 17:09 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-03-01 17:45 ` David Kastrup
2020-03-01 17:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-01 18:22 ` David Kastrup
2020-03-01 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-02 4:14 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-02 8:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-02 9:42 ` David Kastrup
2020-03-02 11:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-02 11:41 ` David Kastrup
2020-03-02 11:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-02 8:39 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-03-02 8:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-02 9:04 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-03-02 11:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-02 9:53 ` David Kastrup
2020-03-02 12:20 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-02 16:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-05 14:13 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-05 15:07 ` David Kastrup
2020-03-05 17:54 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-05 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-22 1:13 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-22 14:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-22 15:45 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-22 17:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-22 19:46 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-22 20:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-03-23 3:26 ` Noam Postavsky
2020-03-05 16:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
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