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From: "Óscar Fuentes" <ofv@wanadoo.es>
To: 23276@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#23276: 25.0.92; Crash in auto-revert when file no longer present
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 15:20:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r3e4wew9.fsf@wanadoo.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABr8ebZrG2Kk1pnmAkrZoBoad0FUjs+p1b6k9-6g20oNhXUvMQ@mail.gmail.com>

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?

$ echo hello > foo.txt

$ emacs -Q foo.txt &

M-x auto-revert-mode

$ echo -n > foo.txt

M-x undo

Clobbering a file doesn't imply that you lose its previous contents.






  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-17 13:20 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
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 [this message]
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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