From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Creating an empty file
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:49:28 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2sle1d6xz.fsf@sl392.st-edmunds.cam.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87veixu2ep.fsf@vh213602.truman.edu
On 2007-01-23, Jay Belanger said:
> michael@cadilhac.name (Michaël Cadilhac) writes:
>
>> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>> If I do
>>> C-x C-f somefile.txt RET C-x C-s
>>> in order to create and save an empty file, Emacs replies
>>>
>>> No changes need to be saved
>>>
>>> and does not actually save the file, even though saving the file would
>>> change the state on disk.
>>
>> I can't reproduce it.
>
> I can, even with emacs -Q.
> It seems natural, if possibly incorrect, behavior.
I like this behavior. I prevent me from creating empty files.
> If this is regarded as a bug, I would expect that an unchanged empty
> file would be treated as a special case for C-xC-s.
>
> Jay
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Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com> (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-23 16:49 UTC|newest]
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[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
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 [this message]
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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