Re: Creating an empty file

[Piet van Oostrum <piet@cs.uu.nl>]

>>>>> Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodgers@gmail.com> (KR) wrote:

>KR> Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
>>> On 2007-01-23 18:57, Micha?l Cadilhac <michael@cadilhac.name> wrote:
>>>> Jay Belanger <belanger@truman.edu> writes:
>>>>> 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.
>>>> Well, the modification flag has a certain use that should be
>>>> preserved. What may be done is to add a var
>>>> `new-files-are-already-modified'.
>>> 
>>> Do we really *need* this?  The `C-x C-s' command will not save empty,
>>> new, unmodified files.  The `C-x C-w' command will happily write empty
>>> files though...

>KR> `C-x C-w M-p RET', but only immediately after the new file was visited
>KR> (otherwise file-name-history may have been updated by an intervening
>KR> command).

`C-x C-w M-n RET' will not have that problem.
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