From: "Mathias Dahl" <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>
To: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Emacs-Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: find-file for file that was deleted, when visiting buffer still exists
Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 19:02:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7dbe73ed0703031002m6df03013uf23697339de79bda@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BDEIJAFNGDOAGCJIPKPBMEBDCDAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>
> 1. Visit a file `foo' in a buffer. Close the window, but don't kill the
> buffer.
>
> 2. Delete file `foo' (e.g. `delete-file' or some other way that doesn't also
> kill the buffer).
>
> 3. `C-x C-f foo'
>
> This raises an error saying that the file no longer exists.
> ...
> Buffer `foo' was visiting file `foo', which no longer exists.
> Choose one:
> s RET - Save buffer `foo' as file `foo'
> k RET - Visit a new, empty file in buffer `foo'
> RET - Do nothing
What about
b RET - Switch to buffer `foo'
I think that it would be useful to notify the user of the existing
buffer. Who knows,
maybe the file was deleted by mistake, which means the user is lucky that Emacs
still has a copy of it. Unfortunately he might not find that out because of how
Emacs currently handles this scenario.
I agree with Drew, it would be nice with some changes here. Now or later.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-03 18:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-03 17:29 find-file for file that was deleted, when visiting buffer still exists Drew Adams
2007-03-03 18:02 ` Mathias Dahl [this message]
2007-03-05 2:55 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-05 4:57 ` Drew Adams
2007-03-05 21:50 ` Richard Stallman
2007-03-05 7:14 ` Mathias Dahl
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