From: Timur Aydin <ta@taydin.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: global-auto-revert-mode and file time stamps
Date: Tue, 21 May 2013 16:36:32 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <519B7860.5050805@taydin.org> (raw)
When a file's timestamp has been changed, but the contents are still the
same, what should be the behavior of emacs be? With the emacs that I am
using (development version):
GNU Emacs 24.3.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.6.3)
of 2013-05-01 on bonsai
It thinks the file is changed. Here is what I do:
- Open a file, edit it and then save.
- use the "touch" command to update the time stamp of this file.
- Wait way more than the auto revert interval (which is set to 5 seconds
in my case).
- Try to make a change to the buffer corresponding to this file.
At this point, emacs says that the file has changed and asks whether I
really want to edit it. I was expecting emacs to auto revert this buffer
and allow me to edit it without further questions. So my question is, am
I looking at a bug, or a feature?
--
Timur Aydin
next reply other threads:[~2013-05-21 13:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-21 13:36 Timur Aydin [this message]
2013-05-21 17:26 ` global-auto-revert-mode and file time stamps Peter Dyballa
2013-05-21 17:54 ` Timur Aydin
2013-05-23 21:35 ` Ken Goldman
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