Re: something.tex changed on disk; really edit the buffer?

[agjf.tucker@gmail.com]

Thanks!  These are the results I get

M-: (visited-file-modtime)
(21568 8785 0 0)

M-: (file-attributes something.tex)
(nil 1 501 20 (21568 8805 0 0) (21568 8811 0 0) (21568 8811 0 0) ... )

I guess this means that it's Emacs' file-writing mechanism that is broken?  Or OSX itself? (seems less likely...)

Ali



On Thursday, 9 October 2014 19:57:42 UTC+1, Barry Margolin  wrote:
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> > I have searched the archives, where I found this advice to someone suffering 
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> > "To find out what's going on, invoke the function visited-file-modtime from 
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> > the buffer of the offending file, and compare the result it returns with the 
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> > I have tried running these functions with M-x but I get [No Match].  Any 
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> These are Lisp functions, not interactive commands. Run them with M-:
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> M-: (file-attributes buffer-file-name)
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