From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>, 17148@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17148: 23.1; Revert Buffer
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2014 16:14:04 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvd2h0u7wu.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <gk38hx59lr.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (Glenn Morris's message of "Tue, 01 Apr 2014 11:54:08 -0400")
>> Emacs is not notified, when a file changes its state outside Emacs. Only
>> prior to writing to a file Emacs checks, whether a file has changed on disk.
> Why can't the revert-buffer menu-item check the file mode bits match,
> the same way it verifies the modtime? IMO it should just call
> file-attributes once, and use that to check time and permissions.
Because revert-buffer is meant to handle the file's content, not its
read-only setting.
E.g. maybe the buffer is read-only because the user hit C-x C-q.
Maybe we should use a 3rd setting for buffer-read-only which says "obey
the file's writability".
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-01 20:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-31 13:33 bug#17148: 23.1; Revert Buffer Joe Camaioni
2014-04-01 7:06 ` Michael Albinus
2014-04-01 15:54 ` Glenn Morris
2014-04-01 18:04 ` Michael Albinus
2014-04-01 18:30 ` Glenn Morris
2014-04-01 18:40 ` Michael Albinus
2014-04-01 19:01 ` Glenn Morris
2014-04-02 13:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-04-01 20:14 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-04-02 6:45 ` Glenn Morris
2014-04-02 13:04 ` Stefan Monnier
2022-02-22 14:45 ` bug#17148: Revert buffer menu-item and file permission changes Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-02-22 16:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-02-22 17:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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