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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

-- 
Leo <sdl.web AT gmail.com>                         (GPG Key: 9283AA3F)

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-23 16:49 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
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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