From: Jay Belanger <belanger@truman.edu>
Cc: belanger@truman.edu
Subject: Re: Creating an empty file
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:19:37 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87y7ntd5jq.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <861wllheo9.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Tue\, 23 Jan 2007 17\:48\:54 +0100")
David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
...
> This would probably also apply for an existing file that has been
> changed on disk, but not in the Emacs buffer. In this case it might
> possibly make sense to ask the "revert buffer" question before saving.
> In the case of a non-existing file, there is nothing to revert to,
> however.
So are you suggesting that when saving a file whose buffer has not
been changed, that Emacs should compare it to the disk file anyhow?
I had always (always=for the last 10 seconds) thought that it didn't
for efficiency reasons.
Jay
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-23 17:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <86bqkphiyj.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz>
[not found] ` <87odopr8ga.fsf@lrde.org>
2007-01-23 16:35 ` Creating an empty file Jay Belanger
2007-01-23 16:48 ` David Kastrup
2007-01-23 17:19 ` Jay Belanger [this message]
2007-01-23 17:23 ` David Kastrup
2007-01-23 17:57 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2007-01-23 23:56 ` David Kastrup
2007-01-24 1:19 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-01-24 7:12 ` martin rudalics
2007-01-24 2:58 ` Giorgos Keramidas
2007-01-25 9:06 ` Kevin Rodgers
2007-01-25 10:36 ` Romain Francoise
2007-01-25 19:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2007-01-25 21:44 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-25 22:01 ` martin rudalics
2007-01-25 22:07 ` Alfred M. Szmidt
2007-01-25 22:14 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail)
2007-01-26 11:43 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-25 22:14 ` Piet van Oostrum
2007-01-23 18:20 ` Michaël Cadilhac
2007-01-23 16:49 ` Leo
2007-01-23 17:11 ` David Kastrup
2007-01-23 21:57 ` Phil Jackson
2007-01-24 7:37 ` David Kastrup
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