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From: Radon Rosborough <radon.neon@gmail.com>
To: zhang cc <ccsmile2008@outlook.com>
Cc: "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: about the manual of visited-file-modtime
Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 22:24:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADB4rJF0n5y1gymbvzA_gEGnu_H_uBxGKCe2s0Y8wWQa8gMdSA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SG2PR0601MB14055D24013FF30E58107427A8D30@SG2PR0601MB1405.apcprd06.prod.outlook.com>

> If the buffer is not visiting a file, this function returns -1.

In my copy of Emacs 26, it says

  If the visited file doesn’t exist, return -1.

Which is exactly what it does. *scratch* and *Messages* do not visit
files, so they have no recorded modtime, hence 0. If you visit a new
file but don't save it, you get -1.



  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-13  5:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-12 23:51 about the manual of visited-file-modtime zhang cc
2018-03-13  5:24 ` Radon Rosborough [this message]
2018-03-13  9:36   ` zhang cc
2018-03-13 16:39     ` Radon Rosborough

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