From: martin rudalics <rudalics@gmx.at>
To: Joe Wells <jbw@macs.hw.ac.uk>
Cc: michael_heerdegen@web.de, 457@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#457: wdired and auto-revert-mode
Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:24:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48977382.7090309@gmx.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86wsiwtylf.fsf@macs.hw.ac.uk>
> This seems to indicate that Michael was complaining about the buffer
> getting reverted while he was in the middle of editing file names.
> I'm not sure how this can happen unless something is clearing the
> buffer-modified flag, because auto-revert-handler refuses to do
> anything if the buffer-modified flag is set.
The only way this can happen is after starting `wdired', when a user has
undone his editing steps (`primitive-undo' may clear it), or when a user
explicitly resets it.
> As long as the buffer is marked as modified, it will not be
> auto-reverted. If it only gets marked unmodified after the user is
> done editing file names, then I don't see what the problem is.
See above.
>>Did you try my `buffer-read-only' patch?
>
> No.
Hmmm ...
>>I use neither `dired' nor `auto-revert-mode'.
... so I'm still looking for someone who does,
martin
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2008-08-04 11:18 ` bug#457: wdired and auto-revert-mode Joe Wells
2008-08-04 12:03 ` martin rudalics
2008-08-04 13:33 ` Joe Wells
2008-08-04 16:08 ` martin rudalics
2008-08-04 18:38 ` Joe Wells
2008-08-04 21:24 ` martin rudalics [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.15844.1217875649.18990.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-08-11 16:28 ` Michael Heerdegen
2008-08-11 17:30 ` Joe Wells
2008-08-13 16:22 ` Michael Heerdegen
2008-08-21 8:04 ` martin rudalics
2008-08-03 11:45 martin rudalics
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