From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Luc Teirlinck Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] autorevert.el -- revert fix for Windows platform Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:24:29 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <200703250024.l2P0OTZ9027237@jane.dms.auburn.edu> References: <7it9frhi.fsf@cante.net> <87slbx9vcf.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <46040576.9090505@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1174782439 31845 80.91.229.12 (25 Mar 2007 00:27:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:27:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, jari.aalto@cante.net To: storm@cua.dk Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 25 01:27:10 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HVGZg-0007kz-5A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:27:08 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HVGbf-0005VZ-96 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:29:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HVGbb-0005VK-0G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:29:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HVGbX-0005V8-Ja for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:29:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HVGbX-0005V5-CT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:29:03 -0500 Original-Received: from manatee.dms.auburn.edu ([131.204.53.104]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_3DES_EDE_CBC_SHA1:24) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HVGZP-0007HK-6h; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 20:26:51 -0400 Original-Received: from jane.dms.auburn.edu (jane.dms.auburn.edu [131.204.53.201]) by manatee.dms.auburn.edu (8.13.7+Sun/8.13.7) with ESMTP id l2P0QXAP013947; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:26:33 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from jane.dms.auburn.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by jane.dms.auburn.edu (8.13.4+Sun/8.13.4) with ESMTP id l2P0OUdD027240; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:24:30 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: (from teirllm@localhost) by jane.dms.auburn.edu (8.13.4+Sun/8.13.3/Submit) id l2P0OTZ9027237; Sat, 24 Mar 2007 19:24:29 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: jane.dms.auburn.edu: teirllm set sender to teirllm@dms.auburn.edu using -f In-reply-to: (storm@cua.dk) X-detected-kernel: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:68512 Archived-At: Kim Storm wrote: I didn't think deeply about the implications of using (buffer-size) directly, but what about using (position-bytes (buffer-size)) instead? Just as wrong, and again, I have actually files for which (position-bytes (buffer-size)) is very different from the size of the file on disk. The internal contents of an Emacs buffer are _not_ the same as the contents of the file on disk, unless `find-file-literally' was used (see for instance `(elisp)Coding Systems'). Sincerely, Luc Teirlinck. LocalWords: elisp